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Re: Perfect aspect

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 2004, 10:03
Staving Keith Gaughan:

>>But why should you use the verb "to have" to express the perfect aspect? >>What, for example, does 'he' actually possess in "He has gone"? What is a >>"gone"? > >You're right, and that's just me letting my anglophonic bias butt in. ><smack!> Correction noted. It tends to happen when you need to spend all >your time speaking the language.
Actually, this is an interesting question. Exactly how and why did "have" get the sense of "auxiliary verb for perfect aspects"? Pete

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>