Behind the curtains of the perfects

[Константин Головизнин]

Dear all,

Just a question to be dead or alive, but all in steps: 

The process of the native language mastering can be put into two stages.
First, a person learns to speaking and earing without knowing titles of his native language structures. Then, he starts learning of writing and as an sddition is being "loaded" with the titles. Out of this it can be made a conclusion - at first stage of the mastering so-called auxiliaries are just words having their own meanings and at the second  those auxiliaries lose their meanings and become meaning-free sounds???

For example. Take the word HAVE and the word DONE. What happens to the meanings of these words at putting em together into the perfect like this:

I HAVE DONE this work.  

Looking forward to your replies,
Goloviznin Konstantin
    


  
   

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