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The English perfective and ‘still’/‘anymore’

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ID10141362
AuthorsMichael D Morrissey (Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year1973
Volume9
Issue1
Pages65-69
Publication date1973-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700003546
OpenAlexW2159850614
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

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

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Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,12
Citation span1977 - 2011 (35)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6
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