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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 :
J. Benjamins,
©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
- 1. Introduction
- 2. IF as a conceptual primitive
- 3. The universality of IF
- 4. ""Counterfactuals""
- 5. The ""continuum of hypotheticality""
- 6. The universality of counterfactuals
- 6.1. Russian and Polish
- 6.2. Mangaaba-Mbula
- 6.3. Japanese
- 6.4. Samoan
- 7. What are the non-counterfactual hypotheticals?
- 8. Conclusion.
- Notes
- References
- Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality
- 1. Introduction: definitions and characterisations
- 2. Which type of hypothetical conditional is more prototypical?
- 3. The grading of hypotheticality over unmarked andmarked HCs
- 4. Hypotheticality in mixed HCs
- 4. 1. Deviations from the present+will pattern
- 4.2. Deviations from the past (perfect)+ would (have) pattern
- 5. Hypotheticality in conditionals with other conjunctions
- 5.1. Conjunctionless HCs
- 5.2. only if unless
- 5.3. suppose/supposing
- assuming
- 5.4. on condition that.
- Provided that /providing that
- 6. Hypotheticality outside conditionals
- 6.1. Wish, hypotheticality, and counterfactuality
- 6.2. Concession, hypotheticality, and counterfactuality
- 6.3. Semblance, hypotheticality, and counterfactuality
- 7. Conclusions
- 7.1. Conditionality and prototypicality
- 7.2. Relationship between conditionality, hypotheticahty, andcounterfactuality
- 7.3. Conditionality outside conditionals
- Notes
- References
- The relation between past time reference andcounterfactuality: a new look
- 1. The ""past-as-unreal"" hypothesis.
- 2. Hypothetical conditionals in English: the received view
- 3. Problems with the ""past-as-unreal"" hypothesis
- 4. An alternative account
- 5. Hypothetical pluperfects
- 6. The life-cycle of counterfactual markers
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals
- 1. The conditional connection, tense and mood
- 2. Tense
- 2.1 Transposition of tenses
- 2.1.1. Temporal clauses
- 2.1.2. Prediction vs non-assertion
- 2.2. Tense neutralization
- 2.3. Future tense in conditional protases
- 3. Mood
- 3.1. Mood and temporal reference.
- 3.2. The metalinguistics of would
- 3.3. The metalinguistics of mood
- 3.4. Conditionals, mood and tense
- Notes
- References
- PART II. Single conditional constructions
- UNLESS and BUT conditionals: a historicalperspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A but conditional
- 3. Unless conditionals
- 4. Similarities between but and unless
- 4.1. Polarity behaviors
- 4.2. Counterfactuality
- 4.3. Phoricity
- 4.4. Clause order
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Conditional Perfection
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A brief natural history
- 2.1. Ducrot(1969)
- 2.2. A correct analysis.