Doubling The Past Hypothesis: Observations On Two Nonstandard Third Conditionals

• Authors: Nadina Cehan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper briefly looks at two nonstandard conditional constructions, if [Su] had have [pp] and if [Su] would have [pp], which present anomalous components. Various works mentioning them have been analysed, leading to the conclusion that the forms have not been treated seriously or exhaustively. Following a small study which tries to establish their spread in the language, the paper concludes that some questions remain unanswered, such as whether the constructions can be characterised according to their geographical spread, their exact vernacular status, and to what extent they may coexist alongside the standard form in a person’s idiolect.

Keywords

EN

conditional constructions; corpus studies; counterfactuals; nonstandard; plupluperfect

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-8

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Nadina Cehan

• “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0001