Description - Coding the Hypothetical by Jane F. Hacking
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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