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Articles in compendium 'ENG4108 Tense and aspect in English' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- Brisard, Frank (2001), ‘Be going to: an exercise in grounding’. Journal of Linguistics 37/2: 251-285
- Engel, Dulcie M. and Marie-Eve Ritz (2000), ‘The use of the present perfect in Australian English’, Australian Journal of Linguistics 20/2: 119-140
- Huddleston, Rodney (1995), ‘The English perfect as a secondary past tense’, in Bas Aarts (ed.), The verb in contemporary English: Theory and description. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 102-122
- Inoue, Kyoko (1979), ‘An analysis of the English present perfect’. Linguistics 17: 561-589
- Mair, Christian and Marianne Hundt (1995), ‘Why is the progressive becoming more frequent in English? A corpus-based investigation of language change in progress’. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 43: 111-122
- Schlüter, Norbert (2000), ‘The present perfect in British and American English: Selected results of an empirical analysis’, in Christian Mair and Marianne Hundt (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20), Freiburg in Breisgau 1999. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. Pp. 313-320
- Schlüter, Norbert (2002), ’Temporal specification of the present perfect: A corpus-based study’, in Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), New Frontiers of Corpus Research: Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Sydney 2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. 307-315
- Smith, Nicholas (2002), ’Ever moving on? The progressive in recent British English’, in Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), New Frontiers of Corpus Research: Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Sydney 2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. 317-330