Conditionals

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface 1
4. On the present status of some metatheoretical and theoretical issues in contrastive linguistics 3
5. Case grammar contrasts 23
6. Prototypes and equivalence 29
7. On the tenability of the notion ‘pragmatic equivalence’ in contrastive analysis 47
8. Against extensive sound symbolism 55
9. Generalized phrase structure grammar and contrastive analysis 67
10. A surface structure constraint and its consequence for a positional and an inflectional language 85
11. A structure-neutral theory of wh-movement 111
12. Contrastive grammar 163
13. How useful are word lists in contrastive analysis? 177
14. Processing strategies in bilingual spellers 187
15. Phonetic awareness of English speech in native vs. non-native speakers 207
16. Suprasegmental transfer 219
17. Phonological structure and the contextual variability of interlan-guage segments 231
18. Some preliminary observations on Polish and English vowel spaces in contact 241
19. Hiatus-breaking glide insertion in English and Polish 255
20. Morphological and phonological levels in English and Polish 279
21. On syntactic levels 311
22. Notes on subjacency as a syntactic constraint in Arabic and English 329
23. Conditionals 357
24. Aspects of an analysis of English and German noun phrases 375
25. Paths 389
26. The interpretation of sententially and lexically negated adjectives in English and Polish 411
27. Comparing the incomparable? 423
28. On the aspect of Polish verbs of movement and the corresponding English constructions 433
29. On the semantic and morphological status of reversative verbs in English and German 441
30. Deictic pronouns as anaphora in English and Polish 461
31. Contrastive aspects of a text analysis in English and German 487
32. What is topic? 499
33. The nominative and the dative perspective in the topic-comment system in English and Polish 507
34. Presuppositions in English and German subject clauses 527
35. A contrastive analysis of German and English death notices 539
36. Contrastive analysis at discourse level and the communicative teaching of languages 561
37. Words you know 573
38. The significance of cultural contrasts in acquisition research 595
39. Index of names 605