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The semantic values of conditionals and their relationship with verb tenses and moods
| Resumo: | This paper explores the relationship between tense/mood and semantic interpretation of if conditionals clauses in European Contemporary Portuguese. The data that we collected and analysed show that the correlation between tense/mood and conditionals interpretation is not necessarily biunivocal/simple: (i) there are formally subjunctive conditionals, which may convey factuality and (ii) indicative tenses and imperfect subjunctive, which may be ambiguous and compatible with three semantic classes of conditionals (factual, hypothetical and counterfactual). |
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| Autores principais: | Mércia Justino, Víctor |
| Assunto: | condicionais valores semânticos tempos do indicativo tempos do conjuntivo conditionals semantic interpretation indicative tenses subjunctive tense |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística |
| Resumo: | This paper explores the relationship between tense/mood and semantic interpretation of if conditionals clauses in European Contemporary Portuguese. The data that we collected and analysed show that the correlation between tense/mood and conditionals interpretation is not necessarily biunivocal/simple: (i) there are formally subjunctive conditionals, which may convey factuality and (ii) indicative tenses and imperfect subjunctive, which may be ambiguous and compatible with three semantic classes of conditionals (factual, hypothetical and counterfactual). |
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