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....
Bare participle forms in the speech of Lithuanian Yiddish heritage speakers: multiple causation In Yiddish, the past tense is more or less isomorphic to the German Perfekt and covers the functions of both perfect and imperfect. The speakers ... Verschik,Anna - 《International Journal of the Soci...
‘thePTCP:read:PTCP-have:INFof the article’). I argue that NI-Perf denote abstract per-fect states that do not involve tense, but pick up the anteriority component of theunderlying verbal perfect form. The analysis builds upon the following evidence:in contradistinction to event denoting ...
It is argued that the German present perfect can be best analyzed by an extended-now-theory in the spirit of McCoard (1978); the future tense is treated in a similar fashion. It is claimed that the German present perfect locates the situation time of the VP within a time interval that ...
(2002) German children's productivity with tense morphology: The Perfect (present perfect). Journal of Child Language 29, 567A589.Wittek, A. & Tomasello, M. (2002). German children's productivity with tense morphology : The Perfekt (present perfect). Journal of Child Language 29(3), 567-...
Secondly, it is a grammatical change in which both Germanic and Romance languages converged. This allows for conclusions about universal conditions underlying such kinds of change. Thirdly, in German, the rise occurred rather late and within a relatively short period of time. This allows for the ...
TenseReferenceSémantiquePragmatiqueTemps grammaticalAspect verbalParfaitInterprétation sémantiqueThe present perfect in German displays a large variety of readings, which are a challenge to any account of the construction. Based on a uniform semantics for the present perfect, it is argued that the ...