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Cross-linguistic variation and the present perfect : the case of Portuguese

Author(s) -

Cristina Schmitt

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

zas papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1435-9588

DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.16.2000.33

Subject(s) - portuguese , present perfect , variation (astronomy) , forcing (mathematics) , linguistics , property (philosophy) , mathematics , philosophy , computer science , mathematical economics , epistemology , physics , mathematical analysis , astrophysics

The Present Perfect in Portuguese has the curious property of forcing iteration of the eventuality described. This paper proposes an account of the iterativity in terms of selectional restrictions of the Present Tense and independent properties of the Perfect and argues against the account of Giorgi and Pianesi 1998 in which the Portuguese Present Perfect is treated as containing two main verbs.

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