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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Declerck, Renaat, author.

Reed, Susan, author.

Series:

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Conditionals.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 pages).

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110851748

3110851741

OCLC:

979588202