Talking about counterfactual worlds: A comparative study of French and Spanish.
Counterfactual thinking is a cognitive process in which reality is compared to an imagined view of what might have been. Previous studies in Linguistics have focused on the description of the conditional construction if P (then) Q. Our study aims to compare the grammatical devices used by thirty Fre...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 52 - 73 |
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