Aoristic Drift and Narrative Perfect in Early Modern English: A Functional Approach

Autor/in	Bondar, Vladimir
Titel	Aoristic Drift and Narrative Perfect in Early Modern English: A Functional Approach
Quelle	In: International Journal of English Studies, 21 (2021) 2, S.57-81 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1578-7044
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; English; Form Classes (Languages); Pragmatics; Language Usage; Generalization; Syntax; Guidelines; Dialogs (Language); Grammar; Semantics; Foreign Countries; Language Variation; Standard Spoken Usage; Old English; Diachronic Linguistics; Drama; Court Litigation; Fiction; Literary Genres; Nonstandard Dialects; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; English language; Englisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachgebrauch; Richtlinien; Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Grammatik; Semantik; Ausland; Sprachenvielfalt; Gesprochene Sprache; Umgangssprache; Altenglisch; Diachronische Sprachbetrachtung; Historische Linguistik; Schauspiel; Rechtsstreit; Fiktion; Literarische Form; Großbritannien
Abstract	In the current study, data from A Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760) are used to consider contexts with the have-perfect and temporal adverbs of the definite past time such as yesterday, last night, ago. Data analysis is conducted within the framework of a usage-based approach, which gives evidence to the hypothesis that in Early Modern English the have-perfect in spoken register was gradually developing perfective semantics and that it followed the stages of generalization of meaning depending on the degree of event remoteness. Investigation of the instances where the have-perfect is used in narrative passages shows that the have-perfect in such contexts does not lose its pragmatic component of current relevance but is employed to highlight a crucial event out of a chain of past events. The paper proposes the hypothesis that the main mechanism preventing the have-perfect from further aoristicization is the operation of syntactic analogy within the syntactic paradigm of the present perfect, which had already fully developed by the time of Early Modern English. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Murcia. Department of English Philology Merced Campus, Calle Santo Cristo 1, Murcia 30071 Spain. Tel: +34-868-88-3406; Fax: +34-868-88-3409; e-mail: publicaciones@um.es; Web site: http://www.um.es/ijes
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Update	2024/1/01