This paper investigates whether even if A, B is pragmatically polysemic, so that a nonconcessive conditional may have even if, and whether concessive conditionals, pragmatically defined, can fail to have even if or a non-temporal still. Different paraphrases are used to help elucidate pragmatic ...
Following a functionalist approach, the goal of this study was to determine whether iconicity/position of the subordinate clause (in our case, non-past concessive clauses) played a role in mood alternation in Mexican Spanish. Initially, it was hypothesized that speakers of this variety of Spanish...
Contrastive Analysis of Concessive Conjunctions in Translated and Non-translated Arabic Texts: An Exploratory Studydoi:10.7575/AIAC.ALLS.V.10N.4P.28Ashraf FattahRashid YahiaouiAustralian International Academic Centre PTY, LTD. 11 Souter Crescent, Footscray VIC, Australia 3011. Tel: +61-3-9028-6880; ...
The present study purports to investigate the relative importance of competing motivators of the positioning of concessive clauses in a non-native discourse community. To this end, a corpus of 100 research articles written by Iranian non-native writers was used and all the finite concessive ...