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In:Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 129–147

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Chapter 7
“Were this eſtimation, however, to be depended on”

Inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change in CHET

 | Universidade da Coruña
Published online: 9 October 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Conditionals and their versatility as a resource for scientific writing
  • 3.Beyond if: The formal variability of conditionals
    • 3.1Inversion conditionals
    • 3.2Some grammatical characteristics of inversion conditionals
  • 4.Inversion conditionals in use: Previous studies
    • 4.1Inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change
  • 5.Corpus and methodology
  • 6.Results and discussion
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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