Definition
A perfect is a grammaticalization of the current relevance, at the moment of utterance, of an event or state that occurred prior to the moment of utterance.
Examples
(English)
The word have in I have already given at the office indicates a perfect.
Kinds
More specific concepts within perfect.
Sources 7
- Pei and Gaynor 1954, 163
- Richards, Platt, and Weber 1985, 211
- Elson and Pickett 1988, 28
- Comrie 1976a, 12, 52–53
- Crystal 1980, 224
- Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 190
- Mish 1991, 873