Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In many languages, there is a wide variety of words and expressions for hypothesis. The result is a diversity of interpretations linked to the use of these words or expressions: “hypothetical”, “false con-ditional”, “concessive”, “oppositive”, “explanatory”, and this tradition is perpetuated in today's grammars. Following in the footsteps of others, we have studied this diversity, seeking however to bring interpreta-tions together under the umbrella of the suspension of truth (vericonditionality) for dialogical debate (veri-dictionality), thus moving from the fact represented to the fact of saying. Here, we take another look at the diversity of introducers, constructions, tenses and modes. Faced with a plethora of combinations, and as soon as we move away from the potential/actual, possible/counterfactual opposition, we can envisage not an opposition but a scale, a gradation of confidentiality or hypothesis of combinations that envisage or allow, or not, actualization.
Source: Verbum
DOI: 10.15388/verb.15.05
Author: Guy Achard-Bayle
Institution: Université de Lorraine
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402822334