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Conditionals and Prediction : Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions /
This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
87. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Conditionals as a category; 2 Prediction and distance: time and modality in conditional clauses; 3 Relations between the clauses in conditional constructions; 4 Knowledge and conditional protases; 5 Conditional clauses: form and order; 6 If and other conditional conjunctions; 7 Conclusion: prototypical conditionality and related constructions; Bibliography; Index of names; Subject index.