A semantics and pragmatics for the pluperfect

Authors:
Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher
Affiliations:
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK;Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Venue:
EACL '93 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1993

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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.