@inbook{ef573c6ddada423b92ff13f062cc557b,
title = "The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languages",
abstract = "This article adopts the traditional claim in Dutch linguistics that periphrastic perfect-tense constructions gradually developed out of copular-like constructions with HAVE and BE. It argues that this development was made possible by the introduction of two morphological rules. The first rule derives verbal (event-denoting) participles from adjectival (property-denoting) participles, which gave rise to periphrastic perfect-tense constructions with transitive and mutative intransitive verbs. At a later stage this rule was replaced by a rule (still productive in present-day Dutch) that derives verbal participles from verbal stems, as a result of which the periphrastic perfect tense spread to non-mutative intransitive verbs. The article concludes by showing that this account is superior to Couss{\'e}{\textquoteright}s (2008) flexible user-based account within the constructionist framework, which rejects the categorial distinction between adjectival and verbal participles.",
keywords = "language change, periphrastic perfect tense, adjectival and verbal participle, copular and semi-copular verb, “double perfect” construction, generative grammar, construction grammar",
author = "Hans Broekhuis",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1075/slcs.217.11bro",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027208606",
series = "Studies in Language Companion",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing",
pages = "261--289",
editor = "Eide, {Kristin Melum} and Marc Fryd",
booktitle = "The perfect volume",
address = "Netherlands",
}