1. From possessive-resultative to perfect? Re-assessing the meaning of [hæbb- + past participle] constructions in Old English prose

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of abbreviations ix
5. 0. Introduction: The present perfect – a re-assessment 1
6. Part I: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the perfect in native varieties of English
7. 1. From possessive-resultative to perfect? Re-assessing the meaning of [hæbb- + past participle] constructions in Old English prose 23
8. 2. The to-infinitival perfect: A study of decline 43
9. 3. Expression of the perfect in two contact varieties of English 95
10. 4. Narrative-embedded variation and change: The sociolinguistics of the Australian English narrative present perfect 119
11. Part II: Perfects across varieties of English
12. 5. Present perfect and past tense in Black South African English 149
13. 6. The present perfect in New Englishes: Common patterns in situations of language contact 169
14. 7. The perfect space in creole-related varieties of English: The case of Jamaican English 195
15. 8. The frequency of the present perfect in varieties of English around the world 223
16. 9. Rise of the undead? be-perfects in World Englishes 259
17. Part III: Building bridges
18. 10. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing 297
19. 11. Afterthought: Some brief remarks on autonomous and speaker-centered linguistic approaches to the present perfect 339
20. Subject index 351