Conditionals and Prediction

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.

First sentence: This book is an attempt to provide a description of a certain fragment of the grammar of English, namely, conditional sentences.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

5

Pages

224

ISBN

9780521591515

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