Conditional morphology in si-clauses
A Canadian-French reanalysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20259570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmen L LeBlanc (0000-0003-1037-0737, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 317-337 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008413100001274 |
| OpenAlex | W4231369226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article reports on a synchronic analysis in the surface variation between the conditional and the imperfect or pluperfect indicative in hypothetical clauses headed by the subordinator si . The empirical basis of the study is a corpus of French spoken in the national capital region of Canada, which comprises 120 informants. The study also has a diachronic component concerning the evolution of the variable based on a collection of published works since Early Modern French. The most interesting aspect of the results is the system wherein the morphological exponent of the verb is determined by the modal reading of the utterance. It is revealed that this grammatical trait was attested at earlier steps in the development of the language and that it helps to resolve a form-function asymmetry resulting from use of the indicative imperfect in a conditional context
Component (thermodynamics) · Context (archaeology) · Dependent clause · Imperfect · Linguistics · Sentence · Statistics · Subordinator · Utterance · Variable (mathematics) · Verb · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |