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. xv–xvi
Published online: 8 March 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.114.lof
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.114.lof
List of figures
Figure 2.1A taxonomy of situation types21
Figure 2.2Types of linguistically communicated information27
Figure 2.3Temporal relations in The rain had stopped when I emerged from the subway exit29
Figure 3.1Distribution of past-referring verb forms from the Old English period up to Early Modern English60
Figure 3.2Distribution of past-referring verb forms from 1750–1800 up to the present day in Elsness (1997)63
Figure 3.3Distribution of the PP from 1750–1800 up to the present day in five registers in Elsness (1997)64
Figure 4.1Distribution of Types A to E in selected European languages and dialects79
Figure 5.1Rates of the PP (vs PT) for drama99
Figure 5.2Rates of the PP (vs PT) for letters99
Figure 5.3Rates of the PP (vs PT) for news100
Figure 5.4Rates of the PP (vs PT) for science100
Figure 5.5Rates of the PP (vs PT) for 1950–1999 drama
and conversation of the 1990s104
and conversation of the 1990s104
Figure 7.1Dot chart of variable importance for 1750–1799 AmE143
Figure 7.2Dot chart of variable importance for 1950–1999 AmE143
Figure 7.3Dot chart of variable importance for 1750–1999 BrE144
Figure 7.4Dot chart of variable importance for 1950–1999 BrE145
Figure 7.5Partial dependence of the choice of the PP over PT
on the progressive aspect146
on the progressive aspect146
Figure 7.6Partial dependence of the choice of the PP over PT
on the type of temporal adverbials150
on the type of temporal adverbials150
Figure 7.7Rates of the PP (vs PT) in contexts with the major types
of temporal adverbials151
of temporal adverbials151
Figure 8.1Rates of have+V-en (vs V-ed) for common verbs in COHA166
Figure 8.2Frequency of the Argentinian Spanish PP and PT
in Fløgstad (2016); current relevance contexts only174
in Fløgstad (2016); current relevance contexts only174
Figure 8.3Foreign immigrants in the United States from 1821 to 1890 by nationality (as a percentage of all immigrants; based on the statistics from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 2003: 17–18)192
