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Peer reviewedKlein, Wolfgang – Language, 2000
Shows that the German "perfekt" has a uniform temporal meaning that results systematically from the interaction of its three components--finiteness marking, auxiliary, and past participle--and that the two readings are the consequence of a structural ambiguity. This analysis also predicts the properties of other participle constructions, in…
Descriptors: German, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Tenses (Grammar)
