The English perfective and ‘still’/‘anymore’

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ID10141362
AutoresMichael D Morrissey (Cornell University, autor correspondente)
Ano1973
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas65-69
Data de publicação1973-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700003546
OpenAlexW2159850614
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas4

Traugott and Waterhouse (1968: 302) have made the interesting suggestion that the adverbials already and yet should be generated from a set of semantic features associated with the perfective, and that still may be related to the progressive in a similar way. The present paper hopes to show that still and anymore are actually more related to the PERFECTIVE than previously supposed, and that a description of these forms in structural semantic terms, particularly with respect to what Chafe (1970) calls the distribution of new information, helps to clarify the meaning of the perfective inflection

Inflection · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Set (abstract data type · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation