Pensum/l?ringskrav

Comrie, Bernard: Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems, (1976). Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-65.

Leech, Geoffrey: Meaning and the English Verb, (2004). London: Longman . 3rd ed.

Articles in compendium 'ENG4108 Tense and aspect in English' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):

  • Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan (1999), Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Pp. 451-475
  • Depraetere, Ilse and Susan Reed (2000), 'The present perfect progressive: constraints on its use with numerical object NPs', English Language and Linguistics 4/1: 97-114
  • Elsness, Johan (2000/2001), 'A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in English and Norwegian, Languages in Contrast 3/1: 3-40
  • Elsness, Johan (forthcoming), 'The present perfect and the preterite', to appear in Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Grammatical differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • 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
  • Hundt, Marianne (2004), 'Animacy, agentivity, and the spread of the progressive in Modern English', English Language and Linguistics 8/1:47-69
  • Inoue, Kyoko (1979), ‘An analysis of the English present perfect’. Linguistics 17: 561-589
  • Mair, Christian (1997), ‘The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpus-based investigation into language change in progress’, in Raymond Hickey and Stanis?aw Puppel (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, vol. II. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 1537 1543
  • 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
  • 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

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