Some modifiers of conditionals
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse in the framework of Boolean semantics the meaning contribution of various categorially polyvalent particles (CPPs) when they occur in conditional sentences (CSs). CPPs are functional expressions which can have as their possible arguments expressions of different grammatical categories. Grammatically such expressions are usually modifiers, that is functional expressions of the category C/C for various categories C. The classical cases of such categorially polyvalent modifiers are items like only, also and even as shown in the following examples:
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تاریخ انتشار 2006