 | Kristen Brustad - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 468 pages
...perfect to designate "a past situation which has present relevance;" the perfective, on the other hand, "denotes a situation viewed in its entirety, without regard to internal temporal constituency" (1976:12). These aspects are familiar from other languages. Slavic in particular grammaticalizes perfective... | |
 | Claire Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Brousseau - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 610 pages
...the [+ perfective] aspect and the [+ perfect] tense Following Comrie (1976: 12), I will assume that "the term 'perfect' refers to a past situation which...for instance the present result of a past event". For example, the sentence John has broken his arm expresses the present result (John has a broken arm)... | |
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perfective ' contrasts with ' impcrfective ', and denotes a situation viewed in its entirety, without regard to internal temporal constituency; the term 'perfect' refers to a past situation which has present relevance, for instance the present result... 