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Grammatical construction
The conditional perfect is a grammatical construction that combines the conditional mood with perfect aspect. A typical example is the English would have written. The conditional perfect is used to refer to a hypothetical, usually counterfactual, event or circumstance placed in the past, contingent on some other circumstance. Like the present conditional, the conditional perfect typically appears in the apodosis in a conditional sentence. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: Perfect Conditional ε‐Equilibria of Multi‐Stage Games With Infinite Sets of Signals and ActionsCited 25 times
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Noun A combination of the conditional mood and the perfect tense, roughly corresponding to English 'I would have...'
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Perfect Conditional ε‐Equilibria of Multi‐Stage Games With Infinite Sets of Signals and Actions
Conditional Power and Rate Adaptation for MQAM/OFDM Systems Under CFO With Perfect and Imperfect Channel Estimation Errors
Near-Perfect Coverage Manifold Estimation in Cellular Networks via Conditional GAN
Perfect Probability Measures and Regular Conditional Probabilities
James Thurber on the Perfect Infinitive after the Past Conditional
The Use of the Conditional Perfect for the Conditional Present in Italian
Lowland small woods: past perfect, present indicative, future conditional?
Oratio Obliqua – Future Perfect Indicative in Conditional Clauses in Primary Sequence
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Kkum ŭi tosi, KkuritchibaYong-nam Pak · 2000
Malogranatum, oder, der dreifache Weg zur VollkommenheitManfred Gerwing · 1986
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