Roumyana Pancheva. (2004). “Another Perfect Puzzle”, ms, USC.
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Roumyana Pancheva. (2004). “Another Perfect Puzzle”, ms, USC.
This entry was posted by fintel on Wednesday, July 14th, 2004, at 12:18 pm.
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The paper mentioned above is about the fact that some temporal adverbials (or deitics) cannot occur with the perfect tense in English, although it is a possibility in other languages:
(1) a. ?? We saw John last night. He had arrived yesterday…
b. We saw John this morning. He had arrived yesterday…
c. We saw John last night. He had arrived the same day…
I took the liberty to put and excerpt from and a link to Pacheva’s paper in my blog.
July 17th, 2004, at 1:35 pm #