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The Spanish Conditional (with Reference to English and Czech): A Contrastive Cognitive Approach

The monograph examines the Spanish conditional (cantaría) with respect to the English conditional (would) and the Czech conditional (zpíval bych). The text presents a classification of all the uses of this verb form based on cognitive grammar and Langacker's notion of ground. The classificati...

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Main Author: Kratochvílová, Dana (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Prague Karolinum Press 2022
Subjects:
Language
linguistics
conditional
grammar
Spanish
Czech
English
methodology
typology
language
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Summary:The monograph examines the Spanish conditional (cantaría) with respect to the English conditional (would) and the Czech conditional (zpíval bych). The text presents a classification of all the uses of this verb form based on cognitive grammar and Langacker's notion of ground. The classification is based on extensive authentic material obtained from parallel and monolingual corpora. The analysis takes into account the modal, temporal and evidential characteristics of the conditional. The conditional meaning is dependent on the existence of a secondary ground, which is defined as the default feature.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (148 p.)
ISBN:9788024652948
9788024652672
Access:Open Access

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