Conditionals and Prediction
Conditionals and Prediction
Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
January 1999
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9780521591515
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.
- The book offers a new linguistic analysis of conditional sentences - an area of great interest for linguists and philosophers since Aristotle
- Analyses a broad range of English grammar, focusing especially on meaning and use
- Advances our understanding of the relation between linguistic form and meaning, and in ways that can be applied to many languages
Product details
January 1999Hardback
9780521591515
228 pages
236 × 160 × 22 mm
0.5kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
