Johan Elsness’s scientific contributions

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The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English
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January 2011

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Johan Elsness

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. © 1997 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., D-10785 Berlin. All rights reserved.

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... Although variation in the uses of the PP by native and non-native speakers of English has been approached in a number of works (e.g., Elsness, 1997;Hundt & Smith, 2009;Davydova, 2011Davydova, , 2012Yao & Collins, 2012;Seoane & Suárez-Gómez, 2013;Werner, 2013Werner, , 2014, the findings are quite contradictory. For example, on the one hand, Davydova (2011), who studied the uses of the PP in a corpus of non-native Russian, German and Indian varieties of English, and compared them with the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English (LLC), reported that the PP is underrepresented in the studied varieties of English compared to the corpus L1 English, which can be explained by the complexity of this strategy, so that L2 speakers appear to avoid using the PP due to its complexity and opt for the Past Simple instead. ...

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L1 Influence on the Use of the English Present Perfect: A Corpus Analysis of Russian and Spanish Learners’ Essays
The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English
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  • January 2011

Johan Elsness