TY - CONF
T1 - If-conditionals as modality attractors
AU - Gabrielatos, Costas
PY - 2006/3/20
Y1 - 2006/3/20
N2 - The talk will examine the case for treating if-conditionals as strong attractors of modality. The claim is tested through keyword comparisons of un-annotated corpora, namely a sample of 853 if-conditionals from the written BNC, and, as reference corpora, the written BNC Sampler, FLOB, all the if-sentences from the written sub-corpus of the BNC, and the non-conditional if-sentences from the sample. Further tests involve the comparison of specific modal words between the manually annotated sample and the annotated versions of BNC, BNC Sampler and FLOB. The talk will also comment on issues arising from problems encountered in the two types of comparison, as well as issues pertaining to corpus annotation, quantitative analysis, and the definition and formal characteristics of if-conditionals.
AB - The talk will examine the case for treating if-conditionals as strong attractors of modality. The claim is tested through keyword comparisons of un-annotated corpora, namely a sample of 853 if-conditionals from the written BNC, and, as reference corpora, the written BNC Sampler, FLOB, all the if-sentences from the written sub-corpus of the BNC, and the non-conditional if-sentences from the sample. Further tests involve the comparison of specific modal words between the manually annotated sample and the annotated versions of BNC, BNC Sampler and FLOB. The talk will also comment on issues arising from problems encountered in the two types of comparison, as well as issues pertaining to corpus annotation, quantitative analysis, and the definition and formal characteristics of if-conditionals.
KW - if-conditionals
KW - modality
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - corpus-based
KW - quantitative analysis
M3 - Paper
T2 - Corpus Linguistics Research Group
Y2 - 20 March 2006
ER -