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On Conditionals Again.
The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994. Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 143. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ON CONDITIONALS AGAIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I. The core of conditionals; Conditionals and Counterfactuais: conceptual primitives and linguistic universais; Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality; The relation between past time reference andcounterfactuality: a new look; Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals; PART II. Single conditional constructions; UNLESS and BUT conditionals: a historicalperspective; Conditional Perfection; Generics and habituais; Conditionals and Restrictives on Generics.
- PART III. Basic dimensions of conditionalityConditionality as Cognitive Distance; Conceptualization: Conditionals as an instance offigure/ground alignment; Conditionals and Polarity; Conditionality in dimensional perspective; PART IV. Conditionals in use; Negative conditionality, subjectification, andconditional reasoning; The emergence of conditionals in child language:Are they really so late?; Speaking Conditionally: Some Contexts for If-Clauses In Conversation; Subject Index.