Meanwhile, thepluperfectsubjunctive continued in its same usage with the morphology cantasses.
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Two other compound forms are thepluperfectand the future perfect.
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This is certainly possible, since for some speakers, background and foreground events are expressed consistently with imperfective andpluperfectforms as examples (45)-(50) show.
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They also foundpluperfectforms associated with foreground events.
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In some of the cases cited from the affidavits (b and c above, for example), the use of thepluperfectis not necessarily nonstandard.
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As pointed out by an anonymous reviewer, in this case thepluperfecthas a perfective inter pretation.
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These forms are the simple past tense (canté), the past subjunctive (cantara), and thepluperfect(había cantado).
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Each narrative was coded for use of a past-tense form in past-time contexts, which included simple past, past progressive, and, more rarely,pluperfect.
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Four contextual cues were also coded for each example in order to examine the degree to which each variety explicitly marks the relative anteriority ofpluperfectcontexts.
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The first type of mismatch was the use of a past imperfective or apluperfectform in the output when the input had a past perfective form.
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This gives the correct result, but it is completely unnecessary for (45), since thepluperfectalways means 'past in relation to a contextually established past reference time'.
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Certainly it is apluperfecthowler in the statute, because the thing need never have happened at all.
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Six morphological forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods present, preterite, imperfect,pluperfect, future, and conditional.: 6.
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The agent is in the dative only with the perfect andpluperfectpassive, and after the verbal adjective in.
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The past is expressed by aorist, imperfect, perfect andpluperfect.
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