By Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven †
ISBN-10: 902723647X
ISBN-13: 9789027236470
The amount brings jointly a variety of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held within the collage of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.
Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the lawsuits of that have been edited via Traugott et al. (1986), the world of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of matters and features with insights drawn from the broader framework of normal approaches of conceptualisation. One significant query is consequently what conceptual different types fall less than conditionality or how some distance the idea of conditionality may be extended.
The quantity represents the up to date study on such a lot features of conditionality a few of which come with the connection among conditionality, hypotheticality and counterfactuality, polarity, historic views, concessives, the purchase of conditionals.
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7. What are the non-counterfactual hypotheticals? I have argued that a core class of "conditionals" (bi-clausal sentences re ferring to what is seen as a real possibility) can be identified in all lan guages, and that IF (as used in canonical sentences) is a universal human concept, lexicalized and grammaticalized in all languages. I have also ar gued that all languages have a class of "counterfactuals" (bi-clausal sen tences referring to what is seen as an imaginary and unrealizable possibil ity), and that, so to speak, IF ...
24) .... der Menschensohn wird kommen, wenn ihr es nicht erwartet. (Matt. 44). ' (25) Wenn ihr nur Vertrauen habt, werdet ihr alles bekommen, worum ihr Gott bittet. g. in the frame wenn nicht "if not" or in combinations with the past tense) wenn can only mean "if, and not either "if or "when", supports the view that it is polysemous, not vague. g. ), as in the following sentence: (26) Wenn du kommst — WENN du kommst — wirst du es sehen. ' What all these facts show is that German does distinguish, lexically, be tween the concepts IF and WHEN, even though in one type of sentence (complex sentences referring to the future) the exponents of these concepts overlap.
WOULD. In earlier work (cf. in particular Wierzbicka 1972) I proposed that "imagine" was indeed a universal semantic primitive, and I assumed that both conditionals and counterfactuals could be somehow analyzed via "imagine". With time, however, it became apparent that this assumption was not consistent with cross-linguistic evidence: it emerged that many languages do not have a word corresponding to imagine, and so "imagine" had to be crossed out from the list of universal semantic primitives.
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