From narrowed current relevance towards extended current relevance

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• The purpose of this paper is to verify how current relevance of the English present perfect is interpreted extendedly through specific example sentences with the deceased individuals as their subjects. These examples suggest that the extended current relevance can be (a) the present relevance from any participant involved in the event in question, (b) situational current relevance, (c) resultative current relevance, (d) indirect resultative current relevance, (e) context current relevance or (f) writer's current relevance. These readings of current relevance contribute to the explanation why Chomsky's example "Einstein has visited Princeton." can be grammatical even if Einstein is not alive. This development is also considered an important indicator that the present perfect is moving towards the past-oriented semantics from a grammaticalization perspective.

• 社団法人大学英語教育学会の論文
• 2010-03-20

著者

• Liang Fu

  Graduate School Kwansei Gakuin University

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