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Conditionals : A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis / Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 37Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110171440
  • 9783110851748
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1441 .D44 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Conditional connecting devices -- Chapter 3. Some preliminary terminology -- Chapter 4. The possible-world typology of conditionals -- Chapter 5. The use of tenses in possible-world conditionals -- Chapter 6. Modalized case-specifying conditionals -- Chapter 7. The three canonical tense patterns -- Chapter 8. The relation between the theoretical world and the actual world -- Chapter 9. A typology of case-specifying P-clauses -- Chapter 10. Rhetorical conditionals -- Chapter 11. Syntactically marked conditional structures -- Chapter 12. Sufficient and/or necessary conditions -- Chapter 13. Uses and interpretations of unless -- Chapter 14. The meanings and uses of even if -- Glossary -- References -- Author’s index -- Subject index -- 537-538
Summary: This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philosophy of language will find this book a rewarding and illuminating source.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Conditional connecting devices -- Chapter 3. Some preliminary terminology -- Chapter 4. The possible-world typology of conditionals -- Chapter 5. The use of tenses in possible-world conditionals -- Chapter 6. Modalized case-specifying conditionals -- Chapter 7. The three canonical tense patterns -- Chapter 8. The relation between the theoretical world and the actual world -- Chapter 9. A typology of case-specifying P-clauses -- Chapter 10. Rhetorical conditionals -- Chapter 11. Syntactically marked conditional structures -- Chapter 12. Sufficient and/or necessary conditions -- Chapter 13. Uses and interpretations of unless -- Chapter 14. The meanings and uses of even if -- Glossary -- References -- Author’s index -- Subject index -- 537-538

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This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philosophy of language will find this book a rewarding and illuminating source.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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