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Tense as Distance in If-conditionals
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- Issue Date
- 2005
- Citation
- SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics, Vol.4, pp. 193-215
- Keywords
- Degree of hypotheticality ; domain of conditionality ; epistemic distance ; if-conditionals ; mental space ; tense ; VIEWPOINT
- Abstract
- Formal features in conditionals play a role in signaling meanings to interpret conditionals. The present study focuses on verb form use as tense markers in conditionals. Verb forms function as revealing the domain of conditionality as well as degree of hypotheticality in conditionals. Hypothetical meaning of conditionals comes from the metaphorically extended function of tense as distance. Domain of conditionality can be signaled with the relation between spaces for the protasis and the apodosis with respect to VIEWPOINT.
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- English
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