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Conditionals and prediction : = time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conditionals and prediction :/ Barbara Dancygier.
Reminder of title:	time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /
remainder title:	Conditionals & Prediction
Author:	Dancygier, Barbara,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English language - Conditionals. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486463
ISBN:	9780511486463 (ebook)

Conditionals and prediction : = time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /
Dancygier, Barbara,

Conditionals and prediction :time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /Conditionals & PredictionBarbara Dancygier. - 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;87. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;98..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511486463 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English language
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LC Class. No.: PE1441 / .D35 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 425

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