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A conditional relationship between two events is one in which the realization of one event is dependent upon or conditioned by another. Languages express or encode this relationship through a variety of morphosyntactic and lexical means. This text provides a systematic structural treatment of the complex conditional sentence in Codified Literary Russian and Standard Macedonian. The book emphasizes the grammatical expression of conditionality in the two languages, focusing on verb morphology and the rich system of modal particles in Macedonian. It explores how grammatical categories - such as tense, aspect, mood and status - are used to encode conditional meaning in the two languages. These categories are also used as a means of organizing and analyzing conditional sentence data. By analyzing this data and constructing typologies of the two conditional systems, the author aims to shed light on the theoretical questions connected to the formulation of the categories themselves.

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Author:   Jane F. Hacking (The University of Kansas)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   38
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9789027230416

ISBN 10:   9027230412
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   15 March 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Chapter 1 - Introduction; 3. 1.1 The study of conditionals; 4. 1.2 Linguistic approaches to the study of conditionals; 5. 1.3 Grammatical categories; 6. 1.4 The data; 7. Chapter 2 - On Russian conditionals; 8. 2.1 Typologies of Russian conditionals; 9. 2.2 esli and by or esli by: the role of conjunctions in conditionals; 10. 2.3 The role of grammatical categories; 11. 2.4 Concluding remarks; 12. Chapter 3 - Morphosyntactic and semantic features of Russian conditionals; 13. 3.1 Typology of Russian conditionals; 14. 3.2 The particle by; 15. 3.3 Grammatical categories in the Russian conditional; 16. 3.4 Concluding remarks; 17. Chapter 4 - Conditional sentences in Macedonian; 18. 4.1 The formation of conditionals: an overview; 19. 4.2 The literature; 20. 4.3 A reevaluation of Macedonian conditionals; 21. 4.4 Concluding remarks; 22. Chapter 5 - Conclusion; 23. 5.1 The principle of parallel marking; 24. 5.2 Conditional typologies and grammatical categories; 25. 5.3 Concluding remarks; 26. Selected bibliography; 27. Index

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