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Conditionals and Prediction - Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R1,458
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Conditionals and Prediction - Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions (Paperback, Revised): Barbara Dancygier

Conditionals and Prediction - Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions (Paperback, Revised)

Barbara Dancygier

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Release date: February 2006
First published: 1998
Authors: Barbara Dancygier
Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 228
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02416-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-521-02416-1
Barcode: 9780521024167

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