Conditionals : : A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis /

Conditionals : : A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis / / 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, produc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (536 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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