Lemma | counterfactual |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Bickerton (1981) |
Titolo | Roots of Language |
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Traduzioni | |
Citazioni | 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 […]. |