ENG4108 Tense and Aspect in English
Johan Elsness 2009 II
Reading list
*Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan (1999),
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Pp. 451-475
Comrie, Bernard (1976), Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related
problems. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Pp. 1-65
*Elsness, Johan (1994), ‘On the progression of the progressive in early Modern English’,
ICAME Journal 18: 5-25
*Elsness, Johan (2000/2001), ’A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in
English and Norwegian’, Languages in Contrast 3/1: 3-40
*Elsness, Johan (2009), ‘The present perfect and the preterite’, in Günter Rohdenburg and
Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and
American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 228-245
*Hundt, Marianne (2004), ‘Animacy, agentivity, and the spread of the progressive in Modern
English’, English Language and Linguistics 8/1: 47-69
*Inoue, Kyoko (1979), ‘An analysis of the English present perfect’, Linguistics 17: 561-589
Leech, Geoffrey (2004), Meaning and the English verb. 3rd ed. London: Longman
*Mair, Christian (1997), ‘The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpusbased investigation into language change in progress’, in Raymond Hickey and
Stanisław Puppel (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for
Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, vol. II. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Pp. 1537-1543
*Mair, Christian and Marianne Hundt (1995), ‘Why is the progressive becoming more
frequent in English? A corpus-based investigation of language change in progress’,
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 43: 111-122
*Rastall, Paul (1999), ‘Observations on the present perfect in English’, World Englishes 18/1:
79-83
*Smith, Nicholas (2002), ’Ever moving on? The progressive in recent British English’, in
Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), New Frontiers of Corpus Research:
Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research
on Computerized Corpora, Sydney 2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
Pp. 317-330
*In text collection available from Akademika
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