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

by Barbara Dancygier

Overview

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. 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 that are used to express them. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a broad range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521591515
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/13/1999
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #87
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 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; Indexes.