On conditionals again
by Athanasiadou, Angeliki Dirven, René
The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994. Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of issues and aspects with insights drawn from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualisation. One major question is therefore what conceptual categories fall under conditionality or ho…
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The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994. Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of issues and aspects with insights drawn from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualisation. One major question is therefore what conceptual categories fall under conditionality or how far the notion of conditionality can be extended. The volume represents the up-to-date re.
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- Publication Date:©1997.
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- Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1997.
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Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (418 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027275981, 902727598X
- oclc:ocn769188861
- LC Classification:P292.5
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
ON CONDITIONALS AGAIN -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- PART I. The core of conditionals -- Conditionals and Counterfactuais: conceptual primitives and linguistic universais -- 1. Introduction -- 2. IF as a conceptual primitive -- 3. The universality of IF -- 4. ""Counterfactuals"" -- 5. The ""continuum of hypotheticality"" -- 6. The universality of counterfactuals -- 6.1. Russian and Polish -- 6.2. Mangaaba-Mbula -- 6.3. Japanese -- 6.4. Samoan -- 7. What are the non-counterfactual hypotheticals? -- 8. Conclusion.
Notes -- References -- Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality -- 1. Introduction: definitions and characterisations -- 2. Which type of hypothetical conditional is more prototypical? -- 3. The grading of hypotheticality over unmarked andmarked HCs -- 4. Hypotheticality in mixed HCs -- 4. 1. Deviations from the present+will pattern -- 4.2. Deviations from the past (perfect)+ would (have) pattern -- 5. Hypotheticality in conditionals with other conjunctions -- 5.1. Conjunctionless HCs -- 5.2. only if unless -- 5.3. suppose/supposing -- assuming -- 5.4. on condition that.
Provided that /p…
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