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In:Studies on Variation in Portuguese
Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 14] 2017
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Chapter 14
Simple past with pluperfect interpretation

Evidence from Brazilian and European spoken Portuguese

 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Published online: 2 November 2017
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Abstract
In this chapter, we analyze the variation between simple past and compound pluperfect forms to indicate past-in-the-past in European and Brazilian spoken Portuguese. Comparing data from Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, we focus on the effect of three variables: verbal person, reference time and type of clause. Using multivariate analysis, we discuss the traditional assumption according to which the simple past with past-in-the-past reference is constrained in the third-person plural. We provide strong evidence that semantic and discursive relations are of utmost importance to the interpretation of simple past as past-in-the-past.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Past-in-the-past in Portuguese: An overview
  • 3.Simple past and compound pluperfect: Variation in EP and BP
  • 4.Simple past with pluperfect reading: linguistic constraints
    • 4.1Person inflection
    • 4.2Reference time for the pluperfect
    • 4.3Type of clause
  • 5.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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