[Lingtyp] Perfect as a focal tense

[Riccardo Giomi]

Dear Sergey,

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 particularly surprising, I suppose, but anyway.

Ref.
Nikolaeva, Irina and Tolskaya, Maria. 2001. A Grammar of Udihe, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849035

Best wishes,
Riccardo

Riccardo Giomi
Assistant Professor of Functional Linguistics
University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Humanities: Department of Linguistics
Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Subject: [Lingtyp] Perfect as a focal tense

Dear colleagues,

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?

Thank you very much!

Sergey
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