Conditionals : : A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis / / Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Declerck, Renaat,; Reed, Susan ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Table of Contents --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Conditional connecting devices --; Chapter 3. Some preliminary terminology --; Chapter 4. The possible-world typology of conditionals --; Chapter 5. The use of tenses in possible-world conditionals --; Chapter 6. Modalized case-specifying conditionals --; Chapter 7. The three canonical tense patterns --; Chapter 8. The relation between the theoretical world and the actual world --; Chapter 9. A typology of case-specifying P-clauses --; Chapter 10. Rhetorical conditionals --; Chapter 11. Syntactically marked conditional structures --; Chapter 12. Sufficient and/or necessary conditions --; Chapter 13. Uses and interpretations of unless --; Chapter 14. The meanings and uses of even if --; Glossary --; References --; Author’s index --; Subject index --; 537-538
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110851748; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110305616
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110851748
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed.

This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philosophy of language will find this book a rewarding and illuminating source.