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The present perfective paradox across languages
This work presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phe...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Oxford studies of time in language and thought.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). |
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Online Access: | Oxford scholarship online - Click here for access |
Copy 1 | CMU Electronic Access | Online |
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