On English and Italian Complex Conditional Connectives: Matching Features and Implicatures in Defining Semanto-Pragmatic Equivalence.

Visconti, J.

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Publication Date: 1996

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On English and Italian Complex Conditional Connectives: Matching Features and Implicatures in Defining Semanto-Pragmatic Equivalence.

Visconti, J.

Language Sciences, v18 n1-2 p549-73 Jan-Apr 1996

Presents a contrastive study of connectives such as "in case that,""provided that," and "unless" focusing on the semantic properties of these items and their semantic and pragmatic equivalence across English and Italian. The article emphasizes that in its approach, pragmatic equivalence is strictly related to semantic equivalence. (54 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Epistemology, Form Classes (Languages), Italian, Negative Forms (Language), Pragmatics, Semantics, Structural Grammar

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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