DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmacounterfactual
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaBickerton (1981)
TitoloRoots of Language
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Counterfactuals are expressed by a combination of anterior and irrealis: anterior because current focus in such cases is always on the consequences of not having done whatever one didn’t do; and irrealis because the action or event in question is an imaginary one […].
- Bickerton (1981), Pag. 93