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Rainer Vesterinen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mood alternation in Spanish Conditional Clauses: Condition, cause and the dominion hypothesis
Journal of Linguistics, 2015Co-Authors: Rainer VesterinenAbstract:The present paper analyzes the mood alternation between Conditional Clauses introduced by the particle si (‘if’), on the one hand, and by Conditional conjunctions such as a condicion de que (‘on the condition that’), con tal de que (‘provided that’) and siempre y cuando (‘as long as’), on the other hand. Situated within the theoretical perspective of Cognitive Grammar, the paper argues that the conceptual content of the linguistic unit that introduces the Conditional Clause determines mood choice. In particular, it is claimed that the indicative mood in si-Clauses reflects the conceptualizer’s reasoning about the causal relation between two events. By contrast, the occurrence of the subjunctive mood in other Conditional Clauses is analyzed as a natural effect of the condition expressed by the Conditional conjunction. The analysis further shows that the mood alternation can be explained by the concept of dominion. The particle si introduces a Clause that is located within the conceptualizer’s epistemic dominion, whereas other Conditional conjunctions introduce Clauses that are located outside the dominion of effective control.
Manuel Sartori - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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For a relational approach to modern literary Arabic Conditional Clauses
2011Co-Authors: Manuel SartoriAbstract:Based on novels written in Modern Standard Arabic published between 1963 and 2005 and from the entire Arab world, this article suggests how the hypothetical systems of this variety of language no longer correspond to the established "classical" model. Specifically, it demonstrates that the so called MSA grammar books are, facing the reality of the texts, descriptively inadequate. It then shows how the modern Arabic Conditional Clause, in its literary level, has created a kind of sequence of tenses, certainly influenced by European languages such as French and English. Therefore this is no longer the operator of the hypothetical system (iḏā, in and law) that enables us to understand the meaning of a Conditional Clause, but the relationship existing between the operator of the hypothetical system's protasis and the verbal form of the apodosis of that system.
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Pour une approche relationnelle de la conditionnelle en arabe littéraire moderne
Arabica, 2010Co-Authors: Manuel SartoriAbstract:Based on novels written in Modern Standard Arabic published between 1963 and 2005 and from the entire Arab world, this article suggests how the hypothetical systems of this variety of language no longer correspond to the established "classical" model. Specifically, it demonstrates that the so called MSA grammar books are, when facing the reality of the texts, descriptively inadequate. It then shows how the modern Arabic Conditional Clause, on its literary level, has created a kind of sequences of tenses, certainly influenced by European languages such as French and English. Therefore this is no longer the operator of the hypothetical system (id ā, in and law) that enables us to understand the meaning of a Conditional Clause, but the relationship existing between the operator of the hypothetical system's protasis and the verbal form of the apodosis of that system.
V. H. Dudman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the grammar of Conditionals: reply to Barker
Analysis, 1998Co-Authors: V. H. DudmanAbstract:Barker, who calls it a C-string, has it encoding its own message (215), half the doctrine I am bursting to refute. Whereas I maintain that this string is merely an integral part of a subordinate Clause more particularly a Conditional Clause 'If she had been at the garden party', which works as a unit encoding an informational factor c which neither is nor incorporates a message. I call c a complication. Barker's wider analysis has Conditionals outwardly binary, with the Conditional Clause encoding something external to what the rest of the sentence encodes (215), and this, I shall argue, is obviously the correct appreciation. Having hitherto proclaimed now one contrary guess and now another, I hasten to revise my account of nothing less than the outermost structure of Conditionals (S6). That a sentence is precisely a string that encodes a message we can take as common ground. Actually, Barker says 'expresses a thought' (211 fn.), but since he represents me as saying that too (e.g. 211, 214), it should come for him to the same thing. In these terms, his position is that when (A) occurs under mi, its C-string is parsed as a sentence. My submissions to the contrary are 'flawed', as resting on 'a highly dubious criterion of sentencehood' (210). Now read on.
Ritva Laury - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The interactional emergence of Conditional Clauses as directives: constructions, trajectories and sequences of actions
Language Sciences, 2016Co-Authors: Jan Lindström, Camilla Lindholm, Ritva LauryAbstract:Abstract This article concerns the sequential emergence of Finnish and Swedish insubordinated jos and om ‘if’ adverbial Clauses in interaction from a synchronic, online use perspective. The authors first demonstrate that such Clauses function as complete directives without any main Clauses, and that recipients treat them as such, responding to the directive as soon as the insubordinate Clause is produced. It is then shown that many insubordinated Conditionals used as directives (ICDs) are associated with a certain orderly sequential pattern organized in adjacency pairs, which bears a certain similarity to bona fide Conditional Clauses. This suggests that Conditional Clause patterns, including insubordinated ones, emerge in interaction in response to actions done and not done by the recipients of the requests, and are thus a product of the interaction of participants in conversation.
Guo Zhong-qing - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Semantics of Simple Present Tense Verb in "If" Conditional Clause Signifying Future
Journal of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005Co-Authors: Guo Zhong-qingAbstract:In this thesis,the author tries to reveal the meaning of the present tense in English "If" Conditionals under the frame of Construction Grammar.First,the concept of "Construction Grammar" and its relation to Conditionals are introduced.Then the author makes a brief introduction to the foreign and domestic scholars' study of Conditionals and a set of descriptive parameters in describing Conditionals,such as the if p,(then) q frame,Clause order,the variety of relationship between p and q,and the role of if.By taking advantage of the concepts of "predictive modality" and "backshift",Dancygier divided the Conditionals into two categories: the class of predictive and the class of nonpredictive.With this theory,the author tries to explain the meaning of present tense in "If" Conditionals' protasis.
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Conceptual Frame of Conditional Element and Its Grammatical Realization
Journal of Southern Yangtze University, 2005Co-Authors: Guo Zhong-qingAbstract:This paper attempts to account, on the basis of the theoretical model of Conceptual Frame (CF), for both the conceptual frames and their grammatical realizations of the Conditional Clause groups by taking compounds of Clause as examples. This paper rests on the neurocognitive linguistics, raised by Lamb whose research centers on semiotic relations. CF is a theoretical model set up by Cheng Qilong on Lamb’s basis, the main function of which is to explain the linguistic system and its operation, the process of activation in linguistic and conceptual systems. This paper covers only a small part of CF, and does not represent the whole frame, with a view to analyzing the Conditional compounds of Clause complex tested by adequate computer program.