Cause, condition, concession, contrast : cognitive and discourse perspectives /
English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora...
| Други автори: | Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth., Kortmann, Bernd, 1960- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Topics in English linguistics ;
33. |
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Print version::
Cause, condition, concession, contrast. |
Съдържание:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; The relevance of causality; On the processing of causal relations; Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained; Causal relations in spoken discourse: Asyndetic constructions as a means for giving reasons; Constructions with if, since, and because: Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order; On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives; Pre- and post-positioning of wenn-clauses in spoken and written German; Counterfactual reasoning and desirability.