A STUDY OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS ON THE PERFECTIVE ASPECT IN MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN

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  • Study of Comparative Linguistics on the Perfective Aspect in Middle High German

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While classic languages such as Ancient Greek and Latin still retain their proper synthetic morphology in the formation of the perfect tense, say, reduplication, later languages such as French, Italian and English have developed a periphrastic compound tense with the aid of a perfect auxiliary, that is, avoir, avere and have respectively. But in spite of this indubitable linguistic fact we should not shut our eyes to the existence of the more time-honored perfect auxiliary be. This paper is chiefly concerned with the perfective aspect in Middle High German.

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  • 英米文学評論

    英米文学評論 51 1-49, 2005

    東京 : 東京女子大学英米文学研究会

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