Routledge is publishing a collection of papers by and about the fifty most influential thinkers in linguistics. One of the articles that is available for downloading is James McCawley’s “Notes on the English Present Perfect.” It’s a good read and remains relevant three decades later. It’s available at http://bit.ly/50KeyThinkers.
The late James McCawley is one of the great grammarians of the 20th c.
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Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306