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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      January 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511486463
      9780521591515
      9780521024167
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486463
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 228 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.345kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (87)
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (87)
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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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