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has gloss | eng: In linguistics, the perfect (abbreviated or ), occasionally called the anterior to avoid confusion with the perfective aspect, is a combination of aspect and tense that calls a listener's attention to the consequences generated by an action, rather than just the action itself. It is distinct from the perfective, which marks an action as a single event, without internal structure. A sentence in the perfective aspect cannot be in the perfect and vice versa. The perfect can refer to events in the past that have been finished (such as “He has already eaten dinner”) as well as events that are ongoing (such as “He has been working on this novel for a year”) or events that are to continue into the present (“He has composed operas for twenty years”); all are characterized by continued relevance to the speaker at the time of speaking. |
lexicalization | eng: Perfect aspect |
instance of | e/Grammatical aspect |
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