The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2: Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian

Isabel Repiso

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The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2

Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian

Isabel Repiso

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Published/Copyright: 2018

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Volume 56 | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

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Counterfactual thinking is a universal cognitive process in which reality is compared to an imagined view of what might have been. This type of reasoning is at the center of daily operations, as decision-making, risk preventability or blame assignment. More generally, non-factual scenarios have been defined as a crucial ingredient of desire and modern love. If the areas covered by this reasoning are so varied, the L2 learner will be led to express 'what might have been' at some point of her acquisitional itinerary. How is this reasoning expressed in French, Spanish and Italian? By the use of what lexical, syntactic and grammatical devices? Will the learner combine these devices as the native French speakers do? What are the L1 features likely to fossilize in the L2 grammar? What are the information principles governing a communicative task based on the production of counterfactual scenarios? These are some of the questions addressed by the present volume.

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Isabel Repiso, University of Upper Alsace, France

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xiii
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Counterfactuality: a theoretical overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
2. Expressing conditionality in French, Spanish and Italian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
3. Acquisition of counterfactuality in L1 and L2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
4. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
5. Results in L1 French, Spanish and Italian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
6. Results in L2 French Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
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February 5, 2018

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148

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507786

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Second Language Acquisition; Counterfactuality; Irrealis; Decision-Making

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Scholars interested in Second Language Acquisition; Logicians

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