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Coding the hypothetical : a comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals /
Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which they do so vary. This work explores some of this variation through an analysis of the stucture and semantics of complex conditional sentences in Russian and Macedonian. It addresses typological questions about the general properties of natural language conditionals and examines the role of the grammat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027230412 9789027230416 9789027281913 9027281912 |