In:The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 114] 2024
► pp. 50–66
Chapter 3The diachronic background
Published online: 8 March 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.114.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.114.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Have-periphrasis and the preterite in Old English
- 3.2The origins of the English perfect
- 3.3Later developments
- 3.4Chapter summary
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