Preterite versus (Present-)Perfect in Modern German
- 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.
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| Author: | Joachim Ballweg |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-17535 |
| ISBN: | 3-484-30237-2 |
| Parent Title (German): | Tempus - Aspekt - Modus : die lexikalischen und grammatischen Formen in den germanischen Sprachen |
| Parent Title (Italian): | Linguistische Arbeiten ; 237 |
| Publisher: | Niemeyer |
| Place of publication: | Tübingen |
| Editor: | Theo Janssen, Werner Abraham |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 1989 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/02/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Imperfekt; Perfekt |
| Page Number: | 17 |
| First Page: | 85 |
| Last Page: | 101 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |