Writing - General & Miscellaneous, Germanic Languages - English Language, English Grammar
Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions
Barbara Dancygier, S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan
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Overview
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, such as causation and logical sequence, correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. 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.Book Details
Published
February 1, 2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
228
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521024167