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Conditionals and prediction : time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /
This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the lin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
87. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. Dancygier suggests that the function of prediction is central to the definition of conditionality, and that conditional sentences display certain formal features which correlate to aspects of interpretation. Although the analysis is based primarily on English, it provides a theoretical framework that can be extended cross-linguistically to a broad range of grammatical phenomena. It will be essential reading for scholars and students concerned with the role of conditionals in English and many other languages. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511008945 9780511008948 0511039034 9780511039034 9780521591515 0521591511 9780511486463 0511486464 9786610429257 6610429251 0511150946 9780511150944 1280429259 9781280429255 0511172400 9780511172403 0511054270 9780511054273 0511324774 9780511324772 1107114276 9781107114272 |