<HTML><BODY><br><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We all feel that exclusive (or “non-combined”) exponents of Perfect and Resultative are much more short-lived than e.g. Simple Past, probably because both Perfect and Resultative are a luxury and tend to become something else, something more simple. Do you know of studies dealing with the life-span of these two categories in the world’s languages?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you very much,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sergey Loesov</span></p><br><br><br></BODY></HTML>