The Shakespeare-Expositor

The Shakespeare-Expositor
Author: Thomas Keightley
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781507592342

"[...]exercise than his native town could afford, that he had a family, and that his circumstances were very slender, while those of his father, as we have sufficient evidence, had been greatly reduced. Nor does it appear that he-who, as has been already observed, except in the case of his marriage, was always prudent-set out for London without having a definite object in view. Now various companies of players, as we learn, were in the habit of[...]".

Aorists and Perfects

Aorists and Perfects
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-02-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004326650

This volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints on tense choice within narrative discourse in Peruvian Spanish. Henderson argues for a theory based on Langacker’s ‘sequential scanning’ in Chilean and Uruguayan Spanish. Delmas looks at ’Ua in Tahitian, a polysemic particle with a range of aspectual and modal meanings. Bourdin addresses the expression of anteriority with just in English. Yerastov examines the distribution of the transitive be Perfect in Canadian English. Fryd offers a panchronic study of have-less perfect constructions in English. Eide investigates counterfactual present perfects in Mainland Scandinavian dialects.