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The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

  • Johan Elsness
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1997
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    I-VIII

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    Acknowledgements

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    1. Introduction

    1
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    2. Towards a theory of the perfect and the preterite in present-day English

    5
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    3. The use of the perfect and the preterite in present-day English

    79
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    4. The perfect and the preterite in the history of English

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    5. Summary and conclusion

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    Notes

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    Appendix I. Symbols used in quotations from text categories in CONTCORP made up of transcripts of spoken sources

    400
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    Appendix II. Composition of CONTCORP

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    Appendix III. Composition of HISTCORP

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    Index of authors

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    Index of subjects

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eBook published on:
July 11, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110810264
Hardcover published on:
March 20, 1997
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110146868
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Reprint 2011
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Front matter:
15
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432
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810264
eBook ISBN: 9783110810264
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110146868
Keywords for this book
Englisch; Perfekt; Imperfekt; Geschichte
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