Funções do pretérito mais-que-perfeito simples em textos literários, históricos e religiosos do galego-português

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the uses of the pluperfect in Galician-Portuguese from literary, historical and religious texts. The –ra form occurs both in the temporal domain (earlier past, sequential past and cotemporal past) and in the modal domain (conjunctive, conditional and desiderative). It is a performance conditioned by verb type, verbal modifer, discursive person, polarity and clauses type. In addition to atesting the multifunctionality of the form in –ra, we show factors that underlie the use in each function, expanding the explanatory dimension from the morphosyntactic level to the semantic-discursive.