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

• 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
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...