Conditionals and Prediction

Description

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality, such as causation and logical sequence, correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. Although the analysis is based primarily on English, it provides a theoretical framework that can be extended cross-linguistically to a broad range of grammatical phenomena. It will be essential reading for scholars and students concerned with the role of conditionals in English and many other languages.

First Sentence

This book is an attempt to provide a description of a certain fragment of the grammar of English, namely, conditional sentences.

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Other Editions

• Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)PaperbackCambridge University Press2006-02-13
• Conditionals and predictionCambridge University Press1998-01-01
• Conditionals and PredictionCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• Conditionals and PredictionHardcoverCambridge University Press1999-01-13
• Conditionals and PredictionCambridge University Press2009-01-01