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From: 3914MABE@vm1.ulaval.ca (Marc A. Belanger)
Subject: Re: German past tense
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Anyone interested in the subject should read Lia Korrel's 1992 article
`A look behind the scenes' published in Lingua (Jan 92 or 93, I think).
Sorry, I do not have the full reference. Anyways, it is a compressed
version of her book "Duration in English" (Mouton de Gruyter, Topics
in English Linguistics, 1991) where she compares the use of the English
present perfect and the Dutch Voltooid (which, she tells us near the end
is used in roughly the same way as the German Perfekt). She devotes a
good deal of speace to the definition of both verb-forms, as well as
a general picture of the verb system in both languages.
