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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.