Conditionals and Prediction : Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions

Name: Conditionals and Prediction
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521024167
Price: 8800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521024167

by Barbara Dancygier

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

ISBN-10 0521024161

ISBN-13 9780521024167

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 13th, 2006

Print length 228 Pages

Weight 368 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 15.30 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology

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This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.

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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