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  <Title>A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we investigate the impact of the pluperfect tense on the temporal and rhetorical structure of narrative discourse. We will use a representation framework for discourse structure called SDRT (standing for Segmented Discourse Representation Theory) (Asher 1993), and a theory of discourse attachment called DICE (standing for Discourse and Commonsense Entailment), which is designed to compute temporal implicatures for natural language texts (Lascarides and Asher 1991). We will argue that the resultant analysis overcomes problems with Reichenbachian theories of tense (e.g., Kamp 1991a).</Paragraph>
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