Perfect Alternation in Early Modern English
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Bibliographical details
Hundt, Marianne and Yoko Iyeiri. 2025. “Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English”. Diachronica 42.
This is a newly-published joint article between Marianne Hundt at Zurich University and Yoko Iyeiri at Kyoto University. It discusses the alternation between the be-perfect and have-perfect during the Early Modern English period. A large number of previous studies examine the alternation in the Late Modern English period, since this is when the major shift from the be-perfect to the have-perfect took place. However, the Early Modern English period is as important, which we have decided to explore. Our research is based on the EMMA (Early Modern Multiloquent Authors) Corpus.
Further details of this articles will be coming soon.
