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Existential vs Universal Perfect What is the difference between (40) and (41)?

Existential vs Universal Perfect What is the difference between (40) and (41)? 40. Since Tuesday he has read a great book 41. Since Tuesday he has been reading a great book 40’. [ [ ---] |

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Existential vs Universal Perfect What is the difference between (40) and (41)?

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  1. Existential vs Universal Perfect What is the difference between (40) and (41)? 40. Since Tuesday he has read a great book 41. Since Tuesday he has been reading a great book 40’. [ [---] | LB/Tuesday RB/UT 41’. [-------------------------------| LB/Tuesday RB/UT In the U-Perfect, the predicate holds for all points in the PTS (and possibly outside it as well)

  2. 42. In two months he will have been reading Anna Karenina for a year Future Perfect, Universal Perfect 42’. [----------------------------|----------------] LB 10 mns UT 2 mnsRB How is (43) ambiguous? 43. He has been sick since 1990 (intonation disambiguates it)

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