Reading List:
- Comrie, Bernard (1976), Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-65
- Leech, Geoffrey (2004), Meaning and the English verb. 3rd ed. London: Longman
Articles in compendium 'ENG4108 Tense and aspect in English' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan (1999), Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Pp. 451-475
- Elsness, Johan (1994), ‘On the progression of the progressive in early Modern English’, ICAME Journal 18: 5-25
- Elsness, Johan (2000/2001), 'A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in English and Norwegian, Languages in Contrast 3/1: 3-40
- Elsness, Johan (2009), 'The present perfect and the preterite', to appear in Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Grammatical differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Hundt, Marianne (2004), 'Animacy, agentivity, and the spread of the progressive in Modern English', English Language and Linguistics 8/1:47-69
- Hundt, Marianne and Nicholas Smith (2009), ‘The present perfect in British and American English: Has there been any change, recently?’, ICAME Journal 33: 45-63
- Inoue, Kyoko (1979), ‘An analysis of the English present perfect’. Linguistics 17: 561-589
- Mair, Christian (1997), ‘The spread of the going-to-future in written English: A corpus-based investigation into language change in progress’, in Raymond Hickey and Stanisław Puppel (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, vol. II. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 1537 1543
- Mair, Christian and Marianne Hundt (1995), ‘Why is the progressive becoming more frequent in English? A corpus-based investigation of language change in progress’. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 43: 111-122
- Smith, Nicholas (2002), ’Ever moving on? The progressive in recent British English’, in Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), New Frontiers of Corpus Research: Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Sydney 2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Pp. 317-330