Coding the hypothetical: a comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals
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Beteilige Person: Hacking, Jane F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. 1997
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series 38
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index
Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which they do so vary. This work explores some of this variation through an analysis of the stucture and semantics of complex conditional sentences in Russian and Macedonian. It addresses typological questions about the general properties of natural language conditionals and examines the role of the grammat
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