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Dancygier, Barbara.

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

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conditionals and Prediction :
Reminder of title:	Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions.
Author:	Dancygier, Barbara.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.
Description:	226 p.
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 87
Subject:	English language - Conditionals.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511486463 (electronic bk.)

Conditionals and Prediction :Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions.
Dancygier, Barbara.

Conditionals and Prediction :Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999. - 226 p. - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 87.

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Conditionals as a category; 2 Prediction and distance: time and modality in conditional clauses; 3 Relations between the clauses in conditional constructions; 4 Knowledge and conditional protases; 5 Conditional clauses: form and order; 6 If and other conditional conjunctions; 7 Conclusion: prototypical conditionality and related constructions; Bibliography; Index of names; Subject index

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.

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ISBN: 9780511486463 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

324235
English language - Conditionals.
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214472
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LC Class. No.: PE1441 .D35 1998eb

Dewey Class. No.: 425

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