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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"counterfactual conditional"”.
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Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction
… to which ESL / EFL learners are able to use counterfactual second conditionals and related grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the production of the target grammatical structures would be “natural” …
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Variation in Past Counterfactual Constructions
The two past counterfactual constructions under investigation in this study are the past counterfactual conditional (Type 3) and the past counterfactual <em>wish</em> complement clause (PCWCC). Each of these has both a standard and variant form. The verb in the standard forms is <em>had</em> + past …
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A reverse counterfactual analysis of causation
Lewis’s counterfactual analysis of causation starts with the claim that c causes e if ~ C > ~ E, where c and e are events, C and E are the propositions that c and e respectively occur, ~ is negation and > is the counterfactual conditional. The purpose of my project is to provide a counterfactual …
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The effect of remittances on household income inequality in South Africa
… the analysis one step further by constructing a counterfactual that allows to compare current inequality levels to levels that would have prevailed had migration not taken place. For the construction of this counterfactual, conditional difference in difference matching will be employed and data …