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Originally Posted by M56 all you've done regarding your "affectedness" suggestion is to offer it as a label. Could you try to elaborate on why you would use the term "affectedness"? Maybe then I'll have something to listen to.. |
Good morning, M56, yes, that's the point.
That is, I'm proposing
the participle of {affectedness} or
the Participle Two just as more appropriate
labels, as you said.
The problem is: all of my arguments for it I've thought of are so ad hoc...!
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By the way don't you know something about the grammaticalization process of
'have+p.p.' ? I've read somewhere (in Kurylowicz, if I remember correctly) that until some stage these sentences below mean roughly the same thing, that is , [2] doesn't have 'present
perfect' meaning:
[1] He has the letter written.
[2] He has written the letter.
Have you ever come across upon some interesting papers or resources about this issue? If you have, please kindly let me know; I'll use it in order to reinforce my argument
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