@incollection{Ballweg2014,
  author    = {Joachim Ballweg},
  title     = {Preterite versus (Present-)Perfect in Modern German},
  series = {Tempus - Aspekt - Modus : die lexikalischen und grammatischen Formen in den germanischen Sprachen},
  editor    = {Theo Janssen and Werner Abraham},
  publisher = {Niemeyer},
  address   = {T{\"u}bingen},
  isbn      = {3-484-30237-2},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-17535},
  pages     = {85 -- 101},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Among the many peculiarities of the German tense system which make its description or reconstruction such a difficult task to perform, there is one outstanding stumbling-block, viz. the relation between the - morphologically simple - Preterite and the - compound - (Present-)Perfect. Disregarding problems of variety - in spoken German in the South, the Preterite either doesn't exist or is restricted to modal verbs, e.g.},
  language  = {en}
}