A multilingual corpus study of the competition between past and perfect in narrative discourse

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A multilingual corpus study of the competition between past and perfect in narrative discourse
 
van der Klis, Martijn; Le Bruyn, Bert; de Swart, Henriette
(2022) Journal of Linguistics, volume 58, issue 2, pp. 423 - 457
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Abstract
The western European present perfect is subject to substantial crosslinguistic variation. The literature, however, focuses on individual languages or on comparisons of a restricted number of languages. We piece together the puzzle and do so in a data-driven way by comparing the use of the present perfect through a parallel ... read more
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Keywords: multidimensional scaling, narrative discourse, parallel corpus, present perfect
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226721000244
ISSN: 0022-2267
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Note: Funding Information: The alphabetical order of the authors reflects a shared responsibility for the scientific content of this article. Even though all authors were involved in the different stages leading up to the first version, Martijn’s primary responsibility lied with the computational side of the research, Bert’s with managing data annotation, and Henriëtte’s with organizing the ideas and writing them up. The revised version is a collective effort by the three authors. It reflects their continued discussions and addresses the thoughtful comments by the reviewers and by Jos Tellings and Martín Fuchs. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by NWO (#360-80-070) for the project Time in Translation. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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