Abstract
We offer a semantics and pragmatics of the pluperfect in narrative discourse. We examine in a formal model of implicature, how the reader's knowledge about the discourse, Gricean-maxims and causation contribute to the meaning of the pluperfect. By placing the analysis in a theory where the interactions among these knowledge resources can be precisely computed, we overcome some problems with previous Reichenbachian approaches.
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Lascarides, A., & Asher, N. (1993). A semantics and pragmatics for the pluperfect. In 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1993 - Proceedings (pp. 250–259). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/976744.976774
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