Nobody’s Perfect

Nobody’s Perfect

This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense–aspect category ‘perfect’ by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St’át’imcets, Swahili, a...

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Main Authors:	Anne Bertrand, Yurika Aonuki, Sihwei Chen, Henry Davis, Joash Gambarage, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, Daniel Reisinger, Hotze Rullmann, Raiane Salles, Michael David Schwan, Neda Todorović, Bailey Trotter, Jozina Vander Klok
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-06-01
Series:	Languages
Subjects:	tense aspect perfect perfective experiential resultative
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148

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