Lascarides, A. and Asher, N. [1993] A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect, in Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL93), pp250--259, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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.
@inproceedings{lascarides:asher:1993,
author = {Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher},
year = {1993},
title = {A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (EACL93)},
pages = {250--259},
address = {Utrecht, the Netherlands}
}