Timeline for Parse these three "could have + past participle" constructions
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 12:55 | history | edited | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2014 at 2:10 | vote | accept | Kinzle B | ||
| Oct 27, 2014 at 13:55 | history | edited | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2014 at 12:06 | history | edited | CoolHandLouis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Provided footnote reference to "PEU"
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| May 1, 2014 at 12:32 | comment | added | Kinzle B | Quite so, I think I have figured it out. Thx! @Fantasier | |
| May 1, 2014 at 12:26 | comment | added | user1513 | Well, I think it depends. From my understandings, it may be a real perfect, or it may not. May have can be used to talk about possibility in the past. Whether it's a real perfect or not relies entirely on the meaning it conveys. Is the speaker talking about the possibility of the present state based on something that locates in time before (the meaning of 'real perfect'), or is he or she simply saying what possibly happened in the past? If it's the former, then it's a real perfect; if it's the latter, then it's not a real perfect. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 11:24 | comment | added | Kinzle B | What about "may have done.."? It's also deployed to indicate possibility in the past and it is indeed a modal perfect construction. (ell.stackexchange.com/questions/13255/… might help) @Fantasier | |
| May 1, 2014 at 11:14 | history | edited | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2014 at 10:59 | history | edited | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2014 at 18:09 | answer | added | CoolHandLouis | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:09 | comment | added | user1513 | Since could + infinitive w/o to is usually used to indicate possibility in the present, could have + past participle is deployed to indicate possibility in the past. So I think the first one is not 'real perfect' (ell.stackexchange.com/a/6313/1513 might help) However, I'm not sure about the rest. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 16:54 | history | asked | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |