A Corpus Analysis of Would-Clauses without Adjacent If-Clauses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10819110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Santee Frazier (0000-0002-4039-9189, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Stefan Frazier |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TESOL Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-8322 • E-ISSN: 1545-7249 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3588399 |
| OpenAlex | W2099127357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article reports the findings of a corpus analysis of a grammatical structure taught in intermediate- or advanced-level ESL/EFL texts: clauses that contain the modal would to signify hypothetical and counterfactual meaning. Contrary to the way these structures are represented in ESL/EFL textbooks—as would-clauses adjacent to conditional clauses with if—these corpus data indicate that would-clauses in counterfactual/hypothetical environments occur more often quite distant from or entirely without any corresponding if-clauses. Often the hypothetical and counterfactual conditions are present but are marked in ways other than by prototypical if-clauses. The study categorizes the conditional and hypothetical uses of would-clauses in spoken and written corpora, and it offers pedagogical suggestions based on the findings
Dependent clause · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Sentence · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |