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    The perfect time span : on the present perfect in German, Swedish and English
    (2006) Rothstein, Björn Michael; Kamp, Hans (Prof. Dr. h.c. PhD)
    This study proposes a discourse based approach to the present perfect in German, Swedish and English. It is argued that the present perfect is best analysed by applying an ExtendedNow-approach. It introduces a perfect time span in which the event time expressed by the present perfect is contained. The present perfects in these languages differ with respect to the boundaries of perfect time span. In English, the right boundary is identical to the point of speech, in Swedish it can be either at or after the moment of speech and in German it can also be before the moment of speech. The left boundary is unspecified. The right boundary is set by context.