Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. The perfect volume 1
4. Part I. Perfects and their relatives
5. Chapter 2. “Universal” readings of perfects and iamitives in typological perspective 43
6. Chapter 3. Perfect and its relatives in Atayal 65
7. Chapter 4. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languages 87
8. Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction 117
9. Chapter 6. Perfect and negation 137
10. Chapter 7. The diachrony of the perfect in Zapotec 163
11. Part II. Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift
12. Chapter 8. More on hodiernality 181
13. Chapter 9. The impact of the simultaneity vector on the temporal-aspectual development of the perfect tense in Romance languages 213
14. Chapter 10. Gauging expansion in synchrony 241
15. Part III. Morphology of perfects
16. Chapter 11. The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languages 261
17. Chapter 12. On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic 291
18. Chapter 13. Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early English 319
19. Chapter 14. The Swedish perfect and periphrasis 343
20. Chapter 15. “ Have -less perfects” in Norwegian 365
21. Chapter 16. From have -omission to supercompounds 397
22. Chapter 17. Auxiliary reduction in secondary grammaticalization 439
23. Chapter 18. The functions of the auxiliary ‘have’ in Australian English vivid narratives 461
24. Index 479