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Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth. 1990. "Temporal Adverbs and the English Perfect." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Northeastern Linguistic Society 20.1-15.

Alturo, Núria. 1998. "Registres i Semàntica Verbal: L'ús de les Formes de Perfet i de Present Perfet." [Registers and Verbal Semantics: the Use of the Forms of the Perfect and of the Present Perfect.] Lluís Payrató (ed.), Oralment: Estudis de Variació Funcional. Barcelona: Publicacions de L’abadia de Montserrat, 91-114.

Anagnostopoulou, E., S. Iatridou and R. Izvorski. 2001. "Some Observations About the Form and Meaning of the Perfect." M. Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: a Life in Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mit Press, 189-238. Ms., University of Crete, 1999.

Anderson, J. 1973. "On Existence and the Perfect." Foundations of Language 10.333-37.

Åqvist, Lennart. 1976. "Formal Semantics For Verb Tenses as Analyzed by Reichenbach." Teun Van Dijk (ed.), Pragmatics of Language and Literature. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 229-36.

_____. 1978. "On the Distinction Between the Present Perfect and the Simple Past in English." Christian Rohrer (ed.), Papers on Tense, Aspect and Verb Classification. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 37-48.

Asic, Tijana. 2000. "Le Présent Perfectif en Serbe: Temps, Mode ou Puzzle?" Inférences Directionnelles, Représentation Mentales et Subjectivités. Geneva: Unite de Linguistique Française, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève, 275-94 .

Austin, Frances. 2001. "Points of Modern English Usage LXXVII." English Studies 82.74-85.

Baker, Will. 2002. "English Past Simple & Present Perfect in Relation To Thai Learners." http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/thai.html.

Ballweg, Joachim. 1988. "Präsensperfekt und Präteritum im Deutschen." [Present Perfect and Preterite in German.] Veronika Ehrich and Heinz Vater (eds.), Temporalsemantik: Beiträge zur Linguistik der Zeitreferenz. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 81-95.

_____. 1996. "Eine Dynamische Zeitlogik für das Deutsche." [A Dynamic Tense Logic For German.] Gisela Harras and Manfred Bierwisch (eds.), Wenn die Semantik Arbeitet: Klaus Baumgartner zum 65. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 217-36.

_____. 1997. "Zusammengesetzte Tempora und Dynamische Tempusinterpretation im Deutschen." [Compound Tenses and Dynamic Tense Interpretation in German.] Hervé Quintin, Margarete Najar, and Stephanie Genz (eds.), Temporale Bedeutungen Temporale Relationen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 59-68.

Bamberg, Michael. 1990. "The German Perfekt: Form and Function of Tense Alternations." Studies in Language 14.253-90.

Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. 1997. "Another Piece of the Puzzle: the Emergence of the Present Perfect." Language Learning 47.375-422.

Barrera Vidal, A. 1972. Parfait Simple et Parfait Composé en Castilien Moderne. [Simple Perfect and Complex Perfect in Spanish.] Munich: Hueber.

Bauer, Gero. 1970. "The English ‘Perfect’ Reconsidered." Journal of Linguistics 6.189-98.

Bégin, Claude. 1996. "Characterizing the Type of Outcome Evoked by the Perfect Simple and the Perfect Progressive in English." Revue Quebecoise de Linguistique 24.39-52.

Bennett, Michael. 1981. "Of Tense and Aspect: One Analysis." Philip Tedeschi and Annie Zaenen (eds.), Tense and Aspect. New York City: Academic Press, 13-29.

Bennett, Michael and Barbara Partee. 1978. Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. Revised and extended version of 1972 System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, California) report.

Berschin, Helmut. 1976. Präteritum- und Perfektgebrauch im Heutigen Spanisch. [Use of the Preterite and Perfect in Present-Day Spanish.] Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Bertinetto, Pier Marco. 1986. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Temporal References: on Restricting the Notion of 'Reference Time'." Vincenzo lo Cascio and Co Vet (eds.), Temporal Structure in Sentence and Discourse. Dordrecht: Foris, 41-78. Paper appeared 1982 in Journal of Italian Linguistics 1.71-108.

Bertinetto, Pier Marco and Mario Squartini. 1996. "La Distribuzione del Perfetto Semplice E Composto in Diverse Varietà dell’italiano." [The Distibution of the Simple and Complex Perfect in Various Varieties of Italian.] Romance Philology 49.383-419.

Bolívar, Adriana. 1996. "La Temporalidad: Pretérito y Antepresente del Indicativo en El Habla de Caracas." [Temporality: Preterite and Before-Present of the Indicative in the Speech of Caracas (Venezuela).] Actas del X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, 191-97.

Boogaart, Ronny. 1999. Aspect and Temporal Ordering: a Contrastive Analysis of Dutch and English. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. PhD dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Bosker, A. 1961. Het Gebruik Van het Imperfectum en het Perfectum in het Nederlands, het Duits, het Frans en het Engels. [The Use of the Imperfect and the Perfect in Dutch, German, French, and English.] Groningen: Wolters.

Brinton, Laurel J. 1994. "The Differentiation of Statives and Perfects in Early Modern English: the Development of the Conclusive Perfect." Dieter Stein and Ingrid Tieken Boon Van Ostade (eds.), Towards a Standard English 1600-1800. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 135-70.

Brugger, G. and M. D’angelo. 1994. "Aspect and Tense At LF: the Italian Present Perfect." Ms., University of Vienna/University of Venice

Brugger, Gerhard. 2001. "Temporal Modification, the 24-Hour Rule and the Location of Reference Time." Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, and Luis Silva-Villar (eds.), Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 243-70.

Bryan, W. F. 1936. "The Preterite and the Perfect Tense in Present-Day English." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 35.363-82.

Bybee, Joan. 1994. "The Grammaticization of Zero: Asymmetries in Tense and Aspect Systems." William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 235-54.

Canavan, J. R. 1990. "On the English Perfect Tense and Current Relevance Implicatures." Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 26.15-28.

Carey, Kathleen. 1990. "The Role of Conversational Implicature in the Early Grammaticalization of the English Perfect." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16.371-80.

_____. 1994. "The Grammaticalization of the Perfect in Old English: an Account Based on Pragmatics and Metaphor." William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 103-17.

_____. 1994a."Pragmatics, Subjectivity and the Grammaticalization of the English Perfect." PhD dissertation, University of California at San Diego.

_____. 1995. "Subjectification and the Development of the English Perfect." Dieter Stein and Susan Wright (eds.), Subjectivity and Subjectivisation: Linguistic Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 83-102.

Caro, G. 1899. "Das Englische Perfectum und Praeteritum in Ihrem Verhältnis Zu Einander Historisch Untersucht." Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie N. F., 9.56-88.

Carter, Diana M. 2003. "A Tense Distortion: Variation in the Use of the Present Perfect in Spain." Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 21.-26.

Cate, Abraham P. Ten. 1996. "Das Perfekt im Deutschen Tempussystem." [The Perfect in the German Tense System.] A. Sroka-Kazimierz (ed.), Cognitive Aspekte der Sprache. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 27-33. Cf. ten Cate (1998).

Chvany, Catherine V. 1978. "Denotative and Connotative Meaning of the ‘preterite’ and ‘perfect’ in Bulgarian and English." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 4.30-42.

Ciutacu, Sorin. 1994. "Some Remarks on the Morpho/syntactical History of the English Present Perfect Tense." Analele Universitatii Din Timisoara, Seria Stiinte Filologice 32.123-26.

Coello Mesa, Antonia Maria. 2002. "Funcionamiento de los Tiempos Simples de Indicativo en El Conde Lucanor." [The Function of Simple Indicative Tenses in El Conde Lucanor.] Revista de Filología de la Universidad de la Laguna 20.5-36.

Comrie, Bernard. 1995. "German Perfekt and Präteritum: Speculations on Meaning and Interpretation." F. R. Palmer (ed.), Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 148-61.

Confais, J.-P. 1995. "Die Behandlung der Ambiguität in der Grammatik: das Beispiel des Deutschen Perfekts." [The Handling of Ambiguity in Grammar: the Example of the German Perfect.] R. Métrich and M. Vuillaume (eds.), Eurogermanistik 7: Rand und Band. Abgrenzung und Verknüpfung als Grundtendenzen des Deutschen. Festschrift für Eugène Faucher zum 60. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Narr, 151-66.

Cowper, Elizabeth A. 1998. "Two Tenses or a Contour Tense?: the Feature Geometry of the English Perfect." Presented at Université de Montréal/Université de Québec à Montréal, May 7.

Curell i Gotor, Hortènsia. 1992. "The Present Perfect in English and in Catalan: Uses and Meanings." PhD dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

D’alquen, Richard. 1997. Time, Mood and Aspect in German Tense. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

Dahl, Östen. 1985. Tense and Aspect Systems. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Dauses, August. 1981. Das Imperfekt in den Romanischen Sprachen: Seine Bedeutung im Verhältnis zum Perfekt. [The Imperfect in the Romance Languages: Its Use in Relation To the Perfect.] Wiesbaden: Steiner.

De Swart, Henriëtte. 2000. "Tense, Aspect and Coercion in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective." Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference, University of California, Berkeley. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.

_____. 2001. "Discourse Properties of the Perfect and Related Tenses in French, English and Dutch." Geart Van der Meer and A. G. B. ter Meulen (eds.), Making Sense: From Lexeme To Discourse (GAGL 44). Groningen: Center For Language and Cognition, 195-212. Abstract at http://odur.let.rug.nl/makingsense/abs/swart.html.

De Swart, Henriette and Arie Molendijk. 2003. "In Pursuit of the ‘Perfect’ Perfect." ACLC colloquium, Amsterdam, March, 21.

De Vuyst, Jan. 1985. "The Present Perfect in Dutch and English." Journal of Semantics 4.137-63.

Decker, Rodney J. 1994. "The Poor Man's Porter: a Condensation and Summarization of Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference To Tense and Mood, by Stanley E. Porter (New York: Peter Lang, 1993)." On Porter (1989), 2nd edition (1993). http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/documents/porter.pdf.

Decklerck, Renaat. 1994. "Das Englische Perfekt: Grammatischer Status, Semantik und Zusammenspiel Mit dem 'Progressive'." [The English Perfect Tense: Grammatical Status, Semantics, and Interplay with the “Progressive”.] Leuvense Bijdragen 83.157-80. Review article, review of Meyer (1982) [?].

_____. 1994a. "The Present Perfect and the English Tense System." Leuvense Bijdragen 83.157-80. Review article; review of Matthias Meyer, das englische Perfekt: Grammatischer Status, Semantik und Zusammenspiel mit dem 'Progressive' (The English Perfect: Grammatical Status, Semantics, and Interaction with the "Progressive”),Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992.

Demello, G. 1994. "Pretérito Compuesto para Indicar Acción con Límite en el Pasado: Ayer He Visto a Juan." [Complex Preterite To Indicate Limited Action in the Past: Ayer He Visto a Juan ‘Yesterday I Saw Juan’.] Boletín de la Real Académia Española 84.611-33.

Depraetere, Ilse. 1996. "Expressing Temporal Relations in Present Perfect Sentences: Deictic or Anaphoric Tenses." Walter de Mulder, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, and Carl Vetters (eds.), Anaphores Temporelles et (in-)coherence. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 23-29.

Depraetere, Ilse and Susan Reed. 2000. "The Present Perfect Progressive: Constraints on Its Use with Numerical Object Nps." English Language and Linguistics 4.97-114.

Dietrich, G. 1969. "Ein Schmerzenskind der Englischen Grammatik: der Gebrauch des Präterits und des Perfekts im Englischen." [A ... of English Grammar: the Use of the Preterite and the Perfect.] Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts 4.402-12.

Dietrich, Gerhard. 1955. Erweitere Form, Präteritum und Perfektum im Englischen: eine Aspekt- und Tempusstudie. [The Extended Form, Preterite and Perfect in English: a Study of Aspect and Tense.] München: Heuber.

Dinsmore, John. 1981. "Tense Choice and Time Specification in English." Linguistics 19.475-94.

Dinsmore, John. 1991. "The Logic and Functions of the English Past and Perfect." Carol Georgopolous and Roberta Ishihara (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches To Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 101-17.

Dowty, David R. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

Dusková, L. 1976. "On Some Differences in the Use of the Perfect and Preterite Between British and American English." Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics 5.53-68.

Dusková, Libuse. 1974. "Perfect Tenses in English vs the Perfective Aspect in Czech." Philologica Pragensia 17.67-91.

Ehrich, Veronika and Heinz Vater. 1989. "Das Perfekt im Dänischen und Deutschen." [The Perfect in Danish and Dutch.] Werner Abraham and T. Janssen (eds.), Tempus—Aspekt—Modus: die Lexicalischen und Grammatischen Formen in den Germanischen Sprachen. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 103-32.

Elliott, Elisabeth. 2000. "The East Balkan Slavic Perfects Within a Typology of Perfects in Slavic." Presented at 12th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 4-6, 2000.

Elsness, Johan. 1989. "The English Present Perfect: Has It Seen Its Best Days?" Leiv-Egil Breivik, Arnoldus Hille, and Stig Johansson (eds.), Essays on English Language in Honour of Bertil Sundby, 95-106.

_____. 1997. The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

_____. 2000-2001. "A Contrastive Look At the Present Perfect/preterite Opposition in English and Norwegian." Languages in Contrast 3.3-40.

Engel, D.m. and Ritz, M.-E.a. 2001. "‘Joanne in Adelaide Has Got a Story’: Is the Australian Perfect Behaving Like the Passé Composé?" [Evidence From Conversational Narratives.] Presented December 2000 at Swansea Linguistics & Translation Seminar, University of Wales Swansea (UK) and January 2001 at Romance Linguistics Seminar, Cambridge University (UK).

_____. 2001a."Perfects in World Englishes: Ireland, New Zealand, Australia." Presented, October 2001, Department of Linguistics Seminar, University of Melbourne; a version entitled "Perfects in World Englishes: linguistic and educational perspectives" presented November 2001, Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia.

Engel, Dulcie. 1998. "A Perfect Piece?: the Present Perfect and Passé Composé in Journalistic Texts." Belgian Journal of Linguistics 12.129-47. Presented at Second Chronos Conference, Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, Institut Libre Marie Haps (Brussels), 9-11 January 1997.

Engel, Dulcie and M.-E. Ritz. 2000. "The Use of the Present Perfect in Australian English." Australian Journal of Linguistics 20.119-40. Presented at the Department of Linguistics, UWA; the Chronos International conference, Nice, May; and (modified) at the Australian Linguistics Society annual conference, University of Melbourne, July.

Engel, Dulcie M and Marie-Eve a Ritz. 2000. "The Use of the Present Perfect in Australian English." Australian Journal of Linguistics 20.119-140.

Engels, L. K. 1993. "Het Gebruik Van het Perfectum in het Engels en het Nederlands." [The Use of the Perfect in English and Dutch.] L. Beheydt (ed.), Taal en Leren: Een Bundel Artikelen Aangeboden Aan Prof. Dr. E. Nieuwborg. Louvain: Peeters, 123-28.

Eroms, Hans-Werner. 1984. "Die Doppelten Perfekt- und Plusquamperfektformen im Deutschen." [Doubled Perfect and Plusperfect Forms in German.] H.-W. et Al. Eroms (eds.), Studia Linguistica et Philologica: Festschrift für Klaus Matzel zum 60. Geburtstag. Heidelberg: Winter, 343-51.

Escobar, Anna María. 1997. "Contrastive and Innovative Uses of the Present Perfect and the Preterite in Spanish in Contact with Quechua." Hispania 80.859-70.

Fabricius-Hansen, Catherine. 1986. Tempus Fugit: über die Interpretation Temporaler Strukturen im Deutschen. [Tempus Fugit: on the Interpretation of Temporal Structures in German.] Düsseldorf: Schwann. 1984 ms., Germanistik Institutt, University of Oslo.

Farkas, Maria. 1997. "Perfettività e Imperfettività nell'ungherese e nell'italiano." [Perfectivity and Imperfectivity in Hungarian and Italian.] Studi Italiani Di Linguistica Teorica E Applicata 26.151-63.

Feigenbaum, Irwin. 1981. "The Uses of the English Perfect." Language Learning 31.293-407.

Fenn, Peter. 1987. A Semantic and Pragmatic Examination of the English Perfect. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Filppula, Markku. 1996. "Investigating the Origins of Hiberno-English Perfects: the Case of 'Pii'." Juhani Klemola, Merja Kyto, and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 33-55.

Fintel, Kai von and Sabine Iatridou. 2001. "Simultaneous Readings." Sinn und Bedeutung 6, Universität Osnabrück, October 10.

Fong, Vivienne. 2001. "An Aspectual Typology in Optimality Theory." Presented at Perspectives on Aspect. www-Uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/Perspectives_on_Aspect/ Proceedings/Fong.pdf.

Fonseca, Fernanda Irene. 1982. "O Perfeito e o Preterito e a Teoria Dos Niveis de Enunciação." [The Perfect and the Preterite and the Theory of the Levels of Enunciation.] Biblos 58.75-97.

Fridén, G. 1957. "On the Use of Auxiliaries To Form the Perfect and the Pluperfect in Late Middle English and Early Modern English." Studia Linguistica 11.54-56.

Friedman, Victor A. 1977. "Developments of the Perfect in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia." Explorations in Language and Linguistics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Department of Linguistics, 21-29.

Fryd, Marc. 1996. "Eléments Statistiques pour Une Analyse Comparée du Perfect et du Preterite en Anglais Contemporain avec Ever et Never." [Statistical Elements For a Comparative Analysis of the English Perfect and Preterite with Ever and Never.] René Pellen (ed.), Textes, Langues et Informatique. Poitiers: Université de Poitiers, 77-91.

_____. 1996a.La Périphrase /have+pp/ en Anglais Contemporain: Opérations Énonciatives et Construction de l'Aspect Accompli. [The Periphrasis Have+past Participle in English: Enunciative Operations and the Construction of the Perfect Aspect.] Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. PhD dissertation, University of Paris VII, 1995.

_____. 1998. "Present Perfect et Datation: Une Dérive Aoristique?" [Present Perfect and Dating: an Aoristic Drift?] Andrée Borrillo, Carl Vetters, and Marcel Vuillaume (eds.), Regards Sur L’aspect. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 29-50.

Gallagher, M. 1968. "Perfect, Possessive, and Passive in English." Ms., University of Illinois at Urbana.

_____. 1969. "Have and the Perfect in English." PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana.

García Fernández, Luis. 2000. "El Perfecto Continuativo." [The Continuative Perfect.] Verba 27.343-58.

Gathercole, Virginia. 1986. "The Acquisition of the Present Perfect: Explaining Differences in the Speech of Scottish and American Children." Journal of Child Language: 28 13.537-560.

Gerö, Eva and Arnim von Stechow. 2002. "Tense in Time: the Greek Perfect." Ms., revision of a paper written in 1999. Presented at the Perfect Workshop in Thessaloniki, 2000.

Giorgi, Alessandra. 1998. "Present Tense, Perfectivity, and the Anchoring Conditions." A. Z. Wyner (ed.), Israel Association For Theoretical Linguistics 5. Bar Ilanm, Israel.

Giorgi, Alessandra and Fabio Pianesi. 1997. Tense and Aspect: From Semantics To Morphosyntax. New York: Oxford University Press. Cf. Giorgi (1995).

Goossens, Louis. 2000. "Two English Perfects, Content Syntax and Fg." Presented at 9th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Madrid 20-23 September 2000.

Grewendorf, Günther. 1995. "Präsens und Perfekt im Deutschen." [Present and Perfect in German.] 14.72-90.

Grønvik, Ottar. 1986. Über den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Aktiven Perfekt- und Plusquamperfektkonstruktionen des Hochdeutschen und Ihre Eigenart Innerhalb des Germanischen Sprachraumes. [On the Origin and the Development of the Active Perfect and Pluperfect Constructions of High German and Their Characteristic Within the Germanic Linguistic Area .] Oslo: Solum Forlag.

Guenther, Franz. 1977. "Remarks on the Present Perfect in English." Christian Rohrer (ed.), On the Logical Analysis of Tense and Aspect. Tübingen: Narr, 83-98.

Guierre, L. 1964. "Past or Perfect?" Les Langues Modernes 58.

Haida, Andreas. 1999. "The Stative Perfect in German as Perfect Construction." Presented at Sinn & Bedeutung 1999, Düsseldorf, October 3-6.

Hantson, Andre. 2005. "The English Perfect and the Anti-Perfect Used To Viewed From a Comparative Perspective." English Studies 86.245-68.

Harkness, Janet. 1987. "Time Adverbials in English and Reference Time." Alfred Schopf (ed.), Essays on Tensing in English, Vol. I: Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 71-110.

Harris, Martin B. 1982. "The ‘past Simple’ and the ‘present Perfect’ in Romance." Nigel Vincent and Martin B. Harris (eds.), Studies in the Romance Verb. London: Croom Helm, 42-70.

Harweg, Roland. 1975. "Perfekt und Präteritum im Gesprochenen Neuhochdeutsch: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Theorie des Nichtliterarischen Erzählens." [Perfect and Preterite in Spoken German and a Contribution To the Theory of Non-Literary Narration .] Orbis 24.130-83.

Haspelmath, Martin. 1992. "From Resultative To Perfect in Ancient Greek." José Luis Iturrioz Leza (ed.), Nuevos Estudios Sobre Construcciones Resultativos. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro de Investigación de Lenguas Indígenas, 187-224.

Hedin, Eva. 1987. On the Use of the Perfect and the Pluperfect in Modern Greek. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.

Heny, Frank. 1982. "Tense, Aspect and Time Adverbials, Part II." Linguistics and Philosophy 5.109-54. This article is the continuation of Richards (1982).

Herzlik, Borivoj. 1976. "Some Notes on the Present Perfect." 12.57-83.

Hitzeman, Janet. 1994 (1995). "A Reichenbachian Account of the Interaction of the Present Perfect with Temporal Adverbials." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Northeastern Linguistic Society 25.239-53. Available from http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hitz/publications.html.

_____. 1995. "Text Type and the Position of a Temporal Adverbial Within the Sentence." Deliverable R1.3.2b, ESPRIT Basic Research Project 6665, "Discourse Functions and Discourse Representation: an Empirically and Linguistically Motivated, Interdisciplinarily-Oriented Approach to Natural Language Texts (DANDELION)." Available from http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hitz/publications.html.

_____. 1997. "Semantic Partition and the Ambiguity of Sentences Containing Temporal Adverbials." Natural Language Semantics 5.87-100. Extended version also, in technical report, Research Paper HCRC/RP-77.

Holthusen, Johannes. 1951. "Zur Aktionsart der Negierten Präsentia Perfektiver Momantaner Verben im Russischen." [On the Aktionsart of the Negated Present Perfective Momentary Verbs in Russian.] Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 21.90-94.

Hu, Shuguo. 1996. "Grammatical Category of English Perfect." [In Chinese.] Waiguoyu 2 (102).72-75.

Huddleston, Rodney D. 1995. "The English Perfect as a Secondary Past Tense." Bas Aarts and Charles F. Meyer (eds.), The Verb in Contemporary English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 102-22.

Iankova-Gorgatchev, Bissera. 2005."The Resultative Present Perfect: Aspectual Markers." Cahiers Chronos 12.171-85.

Iatridou, S., E. Anagnostopoulou, and R. Izvorski. 2001. "Observations About the Form and Meaning of the Perfect." M. Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: a Life in Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mit Press, 189-238.

Iatridou, Sabine. 2001. "Temporal Existentials?" Tübingen Workshop on Participles, April 17, 2001.

Iatridou, Sabine, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Roumyana Izvorski. 2001. "Observations About the Form and Meaning of the Perfect." M. Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: a Life in Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mit Press, 189-238.

Inoue, Kyoko. 1975. "Studies in the Perfect." PhD dissertation,University of Michigan.

_____. 1978. "How Many Senses Does the Present Perfect Have?" Proceedings of the ...th Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society 14.167-78.

_____. 1979. "An Analysis of the English Present Perfect." Linguistics 17.561-89.

Izvorski, Roumyana. 1997. "The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal." Aaron Lawson (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory VII. Ithaca, New York: Cls Publications, 222-39.

Janssen, Theo A. J. M. 1987. "Het Perfectum: Syntactisch en Semantisch Samengesteld." [The Perfect: Syntactically and Semantically Compound.] Tabu: Bulletin Voor Nederlandse Taalkunde 17.28-53.

_____. 1989. "Preteritum of Perfectum?: o Tempora, o Sores!" [Preterite or Perfect? o Tempora, o Troubles!] Neerlandica Extra Muros 59.50-60.

_____. 1994. "Preterit and Perfect in Dutch." Co Vet and Carl Vetters (eds.), Tense and Aspect in Discourse. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 115-46.

Jespersen, Otto. 1965. The Philosophy of Grammar. New York City : Norton. Reprint edition.

Johnson, Marion R. 1977. "A Semantic Analysis of Kikuyu Tense and Aspect." PhD dissertation, Ohio State University.

_____. 1981. "A Unified Temporal Theory of Tense and Aspect." Philip Tedeschi and Annie Zaenen (eds.), Tense and Aspect. New York City : Academic Press, 145-71.

Jovic’, Dusan. 1959. "O Perfekta Bez Pomoc’nog Glagola u Govorima Doline Reke Racha." [On the Perfect Without an Auxiliary Verb in Racha River Valley Dialects.] Godisnjak Filozofskog Fakulteta u Novom Sadu 4.217-27.

Kamp, Hans. 1991. "The Perfect and Other Tenses in French and English." Hans Kamp (ed.), Tense and Aspect in English and French. Edinburgh: Centre For Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 41-64.

Katz, G. 1998. "Present-Oriented Constructions and the Perfectivity Parameter." Presented at Conference on Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Mood Selection, University of Bergamo, July 2-4.

Kiparsky, Paul. 2002. "Event Structure and the Perfect." David I. Beaver, et Al. (eds.), The Construction of Meaning. Stanford: Csli. Abstract at http://www-Linguistics.stanford.edu/linguistics/semgroup/archive/1999/sf_kiparsky.html.

Kirsten, Hans. 1986. "In What Sense Is the Present Perfect Present and Not Past?" ELT Journal 40.61.

Klein, Wolfgang. 1992. "The Present Perfect Puzzle." Language 68.525-52.

_____. 1995. "A Time-Relational Analysis of Russian Aspect." Language 71.669-95.

_____. 1997. "An Analysis of the German Perfekt." Ms., MPI Nijmegen.

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