|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910456201203321 |
|
|
Autore |
Dancygier Barbara |
|
|
Titolo |
Conditionals and prediction : time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions / / Barbara Dancygier [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-107-11427-6 |
0-511-15094-6 |
0-521-59151-1 |
1-280-42925-9 |
0-511-17240-0 |
0-511-05427-0 |
0-511-48646-4 |
0-511-32477-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 87 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
English language - Conditionals |
English language - Sentences |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and indexes. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|