03383nam 22006732 450 991045620120332120151005020621.01-107-11427-60-511-15094-60-521-59151-11-280-42925-90-511-17240-00-511-05427-00-511-48646-40-511-32477-4(CKB)111082128282728(EBL)144737(OCoLC)475871025(SSID)ssj0000128415(PQKBManifestationID)11133979(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128415(PQKBWorkID)10069032(PQKB)11007817(UkCbUP)CR9780511486463(MiAaPQ)EBC144737(Au-PeEL)EBL144737(CaPaEBR)ebr10065234(CaONFJC)MIL42925(EXLCZ)9911108212828272820090226d1998|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConditionals and prediction time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions /Barbara Dancygier[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1998.1 online resource (x, 214 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in linguistics ;87Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02416-1 0-511-00894-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and indexes.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.Cambridge studies in linguistics ;87.Conditionals & PredictionEnglish languageConditionalsEnglish languageSentencesEnglish languageConditionals.English languageSentences.425Dancygier Barbara164274UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910456201203321Conditionals and prediction484121UNINA