The Future Pluperfect: Double Tenses in American English Auxiliaries

The standard AUX rule of early transformational grammar overrestricts auxiliary collocations and does not allow the dialectal future pluperfect to be achieved through a double tense. A documentation of the double tense is presented.

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Published in:American speech 1995-04, Vol.70 (1), p.3-20
Main Author: Chaski, Carole E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dialects
English language
Generative and transformational grammars
Global theories
Grammar
Linguistic theory
Linguistics
Phrase structure grammar
Predicates
Syntactic theory
Syntax
Textual collocation
Transformational generative grammar
Verbs
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Summary:The standard AUX rule of early transformational grammar overrestricts auxiliary collocations and does not allow the dialectal future pluperfect to be achieved through a double tense. A documentation of the double tense is presented.
ISSN:0003-1283
1527-2133
DOI:10.2307/455868