Conditionals and prediction
Subtitle: time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions
By: Barbara Dancygier.
Series: Cambridge studies in linguistics ;; 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: English language -- Conditionals.; English language -- Sentences.
Description: 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, such as causation and logical sequence, correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and indexes.