German: Wir hatten fünf Jahre in Berlin gewohnt, bevor ich einen Beruf in München gefunden habe. Note: This looks just like the present perfect (perfekt) in German, except we’re using the past tense of haben as the helping verb. If you’re using an intransitive verb that takes sein ...
Bamberg, Michael. 1990. The German Perfekt: Form and function of tense alternations. In Studies in Languages 14-2: pp. 253-290.Bamberg, M. (1990). The German perfekt: Form and function of tense alternations. Studies in Language. 14, 253-290....
German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt Two nonce-word studies examined German-speaking children's productivity with the Perfekt (present perfect) from 2;6 to 3;6. The German Perfekt consists of ... WITTEK, ANGELIKA,TOMASELLO, MICHAEL - 《Journal of Child Language》...
(2002). German children's productivity with tense morphology : The Perfekt (present perfect). Journal of Child Language 29(3), 567-89.WITTEK, A. & TOMASELLO, M. (2002). German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect). Journal of Child Language, 29 (3...