Johan Elsness
List of John Benjamins publications in which Johan Elsness is involved.
Articles
2014 The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A longitudinal look Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 81–103 | Article
In this article I examine a wide selection of language corpora, most of which have only recently become available, to shed light on the development of the two main verb forms used to refer to past time in English: the present perfect and the preterite. It has been claimed that the development of… read more
2009 The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 89–114 | Article
The distinction between the present perfect and the preterite verb forms is one of the comparatively few points of English grammar where clear differences have been noted between the various national varieties, not least between American and British English: it has often been pointed out that the… read more
2001 A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in English and Norwegian Approaches to Languages in Contrast, Johansson, Stig (ed.), pp. 3–40 | Article
This article deals with the opposition between the present perfect and the preterite in English and Norwegian from a contrastive point of view. The use of these verb forms is very similar in the two languages, and markedly different from that in closely related languages such as German and French,… read more