Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Anti-Perfect
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| Author: | Guillermo Soto | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
General Linguistics
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| Query: |
As it is well known, Perfect aspect typically signals a relationship
between a past situation and the speech situation. According to McCawley (1971), Comrie (1976), and other authors, there are different types or uses of Perfect: resultative, continuative, etc. In all these uses, the Perfect is, in one sense or another, relevant to the speech situation. Has anybody studied the opposite situation? I mean a grammatical device that signals that a past situation is not relevant to the speech situation? I know that simple past in Perfective aspect can be thought to be this grammatical device, but I'm talking of a grammatical category that not only presents the past situation ''for its own sake'' (Comrie), but that positively means that this situation is not relevant to the speech situation. A grammatical device of this type can be called Anti-Perfect, and can be categorized as a kind of Perspective Aspect, in the sense of Dik (1997). I've looked for Anti-Perfect in different data bases, but the results have been scarce. I would be very grateful if you could give me some advice on this topic. I'm looking specially for papers or books on Anti-Perfect or related terms. I'll post a summary if there are enough responses. Thank you in advance Guillermo Soto Universidad de Chile gsoto@uchile.cl |
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| LL Issue: | 20.2050 | |
| Date posted: | 03-Jun-2009 | |
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