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The English perfective and ‘still’/‘anymore’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Michael D. Morrissey
Michael D. Morrissey
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Cornell University
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Traugott and Waterhouse (1968: 302) have made the interesting suggestion that the adverbials already and yet should be generated from a set of semantic features associated with the perfective, and that still may be related to the progressive in a similar way. The present paper hopes to show that still and anymore are actually more related to the PERFECTIVE than previously supposed, and that a description of these forms in structural semantic terms, particularly with respect to what Chafe (1970) calls the distribution of new information, helps to clarify the meaning of the perfective inflection.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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