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Query Subject:	Nonstandard Structures in English Counterfactuals
Author:	Alex Muir
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Discourse Analysis Syntax
Subject Language(s):	English

Query:	I'm looking at the non-standard structures "if NP had have + past participle" and "NP wish had have" in terms of grammaticalization and am comparing them to "would have + past participle" as well as standard structures in counterfactual conditionals, but I've found very little in the literature about them - my lecturer suggested I post a query here in the hope that someone might know of any papers on this area. Could you please let me know if there is any recently published material on this? So far I've found just three papers: "Parallelism vs. asymmetry: The case of English counterfactual conditionals" by Rafal Malencki in Pathways of Change - Grammaticalization in English (2000) edited by Fischer et al; "'If She Had of Shutted the Cage, the Rabbit wouldn't escape': Past Counterfactuals Elicited from 6-to 11-Year-Old Children" (2004), by Alison Crutchley and "'I Wish I Would Have Known!': The Usage of Would Have in Past Counterfactual If- and Wish Clauses" (2003), by Noriko Ishihara.
LL Issue:	22.1751
Date posted:	19-Apr-2011
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