perfect, Porter, Fanning, and I come to similar conclusions about its use in context. Porter regards the perfect as always stative (due to its stative aspect), as does Fanning (due to the semantic encoding of stative Aktionsart). I regard the perfect as normally stative, but this is regarded as a key function, rather than a semantic, uncancelable quality of the perfect. Given that the perfect is often coupled with stative lexemes, its imperfective aspect works together with such lexemes to create