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

Klappentext This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. 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 that are used to express them. Focused on English! the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a broad range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Dancygier, Barbara (University of British Columbia Dancygier
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521024167
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02416-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics