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UNINA9910452906103321 |
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Autore |
Ippolito Michela <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Subjunctive conditionals : a linguistic analysis / / Michela Ippolito |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-31488-6 |
0-262-31487-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Collana |
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Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 65 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Conditionals |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Subjunctive |
Modality (Linguistics) |
Semantics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Temporal Mismatches in Subjunctive Conditionals; 3 A Compositional Analysis; 4 Presuppositions; 5 An Asymmetry between the Past and the Future; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses. |
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