THE USE OF THE PLUPERFECT IN THE CORPUS OF EARLY ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE

• Authors: Molencki Rafal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study shows that the primary function of the pluperfect tense in the corpus of early English correspondence (15th-17th centuries) was the expression of counterfactuality rather than anteriority. Its use to refer to pre-past actions was by no means obligatory, especially if other exponents of anteriority were present. Some attention is also paid to the variation between the auxiliary verbs be and have.

Keywords

EN

AUXILIARY VERBS; COUNTERFACTUALITY; PLUPERFECT TENSE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Linguistica Silesiana
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 133-145
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Molencki Rafal

• Rafal Molencki, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06479