CONDITIONAL SENTENCES IN ENGLISH AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO TURKISH

Authors: Burcu Başoğlu Saritaş & Baha Cankut Saritaş

ABSTRACT

‘‘Conditional sentences usually consist of two clauses: a conditional clause (or if clause) and the main clause (or result clause). The result in the main clause is dependent on the condition in the conditional clause’’ (Foley & Hall, 2003, p.120). Conditionals is a highly controversial subject in current linguistic analysis. In this article, the basic types of conditional sentences are identified and the functioning of conditionality in the content, epistemic, and speech-act domains has been clarified, and a number of relations in these conditionals both in English and Turkish have been introduced.

Keywords: Conditional Sentences, Epistemic And Speech-act Domains, Comparative Analysis

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