Would you vote for Obama if he were white ? : l’alternance were/was et la problématique de l’altérité
This corpus-based analysis shows that the traditional explanation of the use of were instead of was for 1st and 3rd persons singular in terms of counterfactuality is inadequate. The major claim of my paper is that grammar should be connected with interlocutionary patterns rather than referentially-b...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/acs/12427 |
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