32.2665, Books: The Perfect Volume: Eide, Fryd (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:31:45
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Perfect Volume: Eide, Fryd (eds.)

 


Title: The Perfect Volume 
Subtitle: Papers on the perfect 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 217  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.217 


Editor: Kristin Melum Eide
Editor: Marc Fryd

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259998 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259998 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259998 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208606 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208606 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208606 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to
Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense
and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of
its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each
other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the
typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal
point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the
simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics
and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction
with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo
auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection.
These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new
insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied
languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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