ConSOLE 13 2005 • The Arctic University of Norway

(More) reading of the German present perfect

Björn Rothstein

Present PerfectExtended Now TheoryDiscourse-Based Approach

Abstract

The paper argues for a single uniform meaning of the German present perfect in the spirit of an Extended Now theory (McCoard 1978). As only context fully disambiguates between the different readings of the present perfect, I propose an analysis in terms of Kamp & Reyle’s (1993) discourse-based approach to tense. Temporal and rhetorical relations between tenses in a given text will be used to account for the different readings of the present perfect.

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Björn Rothstein (2005). (more) reading of the german present perfect. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 13, edited by Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente, Erik Schoorlemmer, (pp. 331-352).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Rothstein-ConSOLE13-2004, title={(More) reading of the German present perfect}, author={Björn Rothstein }, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 13}, year={2005}, pages={331-352}, editor={Sylvia Blaho and Luis Vicente and Erik Schoorlemmer} }

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