The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2
Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian
Published on 5. February 2018
Book
Mixed media product
XV, 148 pages
978-1-5015-0779-3 (ISBN)
Description
Traditionally, the interest paid to conditional constructions -- e.g., if President Kennedy hadn't flown to Dallas, then Oswald wouldn't have been shot -- has neglected the analysis of other ways to express counterfactual reasoning. This study reveals significant differences in the grammatical devices to encode counterfactuality in French compared to Spanish and French L2 beyond conditional constructions.
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Isabel Repiso, University of Upper Alsace, France