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Dear Sergey,</div>
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I don't think this refers to the past domain (or at least not specifically), but in Nikoaeva & Tolskaya's grammar of Udihe (p.253), the perfect is described as having focus (or maybe thetic/all-new information marking?) as one of its main function. Nothing
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Nikolaeva, Irina and Tolskaya, Maria. 2001. <i>A Grammar of Udihe</i>, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
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<div>Are you aware of languages in which PERFECT is used to encode mainly the focus/comment/rheme in functional sentence perspective, within the past-time domain? Or maybe you are familiar with some literature on the subject?</div>
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<div>Thank you very much!</div>
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