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Publication details [#25471]
Dancygier, Barbara. 1993. Interpreting conditionals: Time, knowledge, and causation. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (5) : 403–434. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper focuses on prototypical and less common interpretations of English conditionals as signaled by verb forms in IF and IF P, THEN Q clauses. The verb forms are considered to reveal, besides temporal reference, the speaker's epistemic stance and the cognitive field of the P-Q relation.