The German Perfect : Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials /

This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense system into account, provides analyses of several temp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Musan, Renate
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:	Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; 78.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Pragmatism. Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Semantics of the Present Perfect
3. The Meaning Effects of the Present Perfect
4. Types of Temporal Adverbials
5. Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
6. The Contribution of Particular Adverbials
7. Temporal Subordinate Clauses, Conjunctions, and Matrix Clauses
8. On the Syntax of Temporal Adverbials
9. Conclusion. References
Index.