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Grammatical tense
The pluperfect, usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving an action from an antecedent point in time. Examples in English are: "we had arrived" before the game began; "they had been writing" when the bell rang. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PluperfectA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Not Only Anteriority in the Past: The Functions of the Pluperfect in Spoken ItalianInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The elements of New Testament GreekThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Does poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) hydrogel be the pluperfect choiceness in treatment of dyeing wastewater? “From simple copolymer to gigantic aqua-waste remover”Cited 30 times
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📖 Definitions
Adjective More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
Adjective Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
Adjective Being or relating to a certain type of graph that complies with a theorem ("pluperfect graph theorem") discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970, satisfying even more constraints than a perfect graph.
Adjective Synonym of multiperfect.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Does poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) hydrogel be the pluperfect choiceness in treatment of dyeing wastewater? “From simple copolymer to gigantic aqua-waste remover”
Perfect and pluperfect: what is the relationship?
The pluperfect in native and non-native English: A comparative corpus study
On the semantics of the Pluperfect: Evidence from Germanic and Romance
The Pluperfect and its discourse potential in contrast
Pluperfect periphrases in Medieval Greek: a perspective on the collaboration between linguistics and philology
On the integrality of an extreme solution to pluperfect graph and balanced systems
ON THE ENGLISH PLUPERFECT: DOES IT REALLY REPRESENT THE PRE-PRETERITE TENSE?
🆕 Influential since 2022
Not Only Anteriority in the Past: The Functions of the Pluperfect in Spoken Italian
The Portuguese Pluperfect: Development and the effect of auxiliary ter generalization
Pedagogical potential of Cognitive Grammar descriptions for the pluperfect in Spanish
On the semantics and discourse functions of the aorist and the pluperfect in Modern Serbian: A study of Milorad Pavić’s novel The Inner Side of the Wind
The Portuguese pluperfect: diversity of forms, polysemy and interaction with adjuncts
📚 Books worth reading
The elements of New Testament GreekH. P. V. Nunn · 1914
The complete Latin courseG. D. A. Sharpley · 2014
ModalityAlex Klinge · 2005
Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline CorpusJames E. Sedlacek · 2022- 📕A preter-plvperfect spick and span new nocturnall, or Mercuries weekly night-newesJohn Taylor "The Water-Poet" · 1643
Murder pluperfectKenneth Giles · 1970
China PluperfectFrank Vigneron · 2022- 📕The -ra verb form in SpainLeavitt Olds Wright · 1932
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