In order to find examples where the perfective aspect portrays
actions that are ongoing, and where the end is not reached, you can
only use the perfect participle - he has stood.
Also consider the following:
1) I have gone for a long time (doesn't make sense)
2) I have been gone for a long time (now makes sense)
3) I have known this for a long time (unlike sentence 1 this makes sense)
Where is the intersection of E by R in 3)?
In 3 I would understand both the imperfect and the perfect aspect being made visible as you analysed the 'He has been ... ' phrase above. That is to say that two features are revealed
a) The length of time the thing has been known (perfective sense)
b) The ongoing knowledge (imperfective sense)
Consider also the following:
4) I have felt this way for a long time
5) I have had this email account for almost a year
These emails seem to indicate that certain verbs are used in the present perfect construction but with a present progressive sense. The semantics of the verb overrides the default sense of the construction.
Conversely, consider:
6) I have been having this email account for almost a year
7) He has been being in the corner for a long time
In fact, as the above examples show, when we attempt to use the present progressive construction with these verbs the sentence sounds odd although it is possible for us to extract the intended sense.
I dare say that a similar phenomenon may have happened in BH. That is to say that the semantics of individual verbs could override the semantics of the verb form. However, we simply do not have the data required to fully test this.
James Christian
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