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| Title: | The return of an English pluperfect subjunctive? |
| Authors: | Fennell, Trevor Garth |
| Keywords: | Languages
Language Studies
linguistics
conditional
conditional perfect
grammar |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2002 |
| Publisher: | Department of Languages, Flinders University |
| Citation: | Fennell, Trevor G 2002. The return of an English pluperfect subjunctive? 'FULGOR', vol.1, iss.1, March. |
| Series/Report no.: | FULGOR Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2002 |
| Abstract: | The introduction of the superfluous morpheme [әv] into past unfulfilled if-clauses in modern English raises serious questions of analysis. How is one to parse a clause like: “If I had’ve
known that...”? It is proposed that the intrusive morpheme can be viewed as a marker of subjunctivity, whereby “real” and “unreal” pluperfects can be explicitly distinguished. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/83 |
| ISSN: | 1446-9219 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 1 Issue 1 March 2002
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