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- Title
If and when it’s a construction ….
- Authors
Sullivan, Karen
- Abstract
The current study documents and analyzes the previously unrecognized English if and when construction. This construction coordinates a conditional and a temporal conjunction, as in if and when P Q; Q until and unless P; and a wide range of other micro-constructions. The current study documents the various types of if and when constructions, examines their relation to temporal and conditional constructions, and analyzes their variations in form and meaning from a Construction Grammar perspective.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION grammar; TEMPORAL constructions (Grammar); CONJUNCTIONS (Grammar); CORPORA; GRAMMAR
- Publication
Constructions & Frames, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 2, p236
- ISSN
1876-1933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/cf.3.2.04sul