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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779027303321

Autore

Polańska Irena

Titolo

Expressing condition in English and Polish / / Irena Polańska [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Krakow : , : Jagiellonian University Press, , 2006

ISBN

83-233-8060-0

Edizione

[Wydanie I.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Conditionals

English language - Grammar, Comparative - Polish

Polish language - Conditionals

Polish language - Grammar, Comparative - English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[149]-152).

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; STRUCTURE AND BASIC DISTINCTIONS; THE MOOD; TIME REFERENCE; 3.1. Hypothetical sentences; 3.2. Open conditions; 3.3. Generic constructions; 3.4. Backshift; 3.5. Mixed open-hypothetical structures; 3.6. Some final remarks; THE FULFILMENT OF THE CONDITION; 4.1. Open conditions; 4.2. Hypothetical conditions; 4.3. Mixed structures; 4.4. Generic constructions; 4.5. Conclusions; RELATIONS BETWEEN THE CLAUSES; 5.1. Sequentiality; 5.2. Causality; 5.3. Inferential relations; 5.4. Speech act relations; CONTEXTUAL CONDITIONALS

CLAUSE ORDER AND POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCESCONJUNCTIONS; 8.1. If and its Polish equivalents; 8.2. Conveying negative meanings: unless/if not and their Polish equivalents; 8.3. If only and other expressions and structures with if; 8.4. Introducing the main clause: then; OTHER WAYS OF EXPRESSING CONDITION; 9.1. Conveying temporal meaning; 9.2 Stating condition; 9.3. Making assumptions and suppositions; 9.4. The case of case and a series of events; CLAUSES OF CONDITION AND CONCESSION; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The paper presents the results of contrastive Polish-English research on how to express the condition, and is an attempt to present the



relationship between form and indicating the periods of conditional period.