Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions - Brossura

Dancygier, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521024161 ISBN 13: 9780521024167

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences.

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Descrizione del libro

This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; 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; Bibliography; Indexes.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521024161
• ISBN 13: 9780521024167
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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