Abstract
This chapter deals with the German perfect constructions by asking whether they can be given a compositional analysis, and if so, how. As mentioned at the beginning of the introductory chapter, I will focus on the present perfect — the idea behind this strategy is the following: as a by-product of the semantics of the present perfect combined with an account of the past tense and the future tense, the semantics of the past perfect and of the future perfect should fall automatically in place if the semantics of the present perfect has been grasped. Consider the present perfect clause in (1.1), repeated here from the preceding chapter.
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