Independent Conditional Clauses In the French Language

The paper examines independently composed clauses in the French language in which the semantic relation of conditionality is recognized. These sentences are two-part, coordinated, and juxtaposed sentence structures that differ typologically. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to determine the types of sentences involved, identify their basic grammatical and semantic features, and then explore specificities that emerge in certain contexts during the semantic interpretation of such sentence structures. 6 types of conditional independently composed clauses are distinguished according to the basic syntactic-semantic features of the first clause, which in these two-part structures is the carrier of conditional semantics, which was confirmed in all the above examples by paraphrases in which a dependent conditional clause replaces the first clause with the conjunction si.

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Društvene i humanističke studije
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2024-12-31
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https://doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2025.10.1.177
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linguistics and terminology studies
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Independent Conditional Clauses In the French Language

Lejla Tekešinović
Društvene i humanističke studije
linguistics and terminology studies
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Independent Conditional Clauses In the French Language

Lejla Tekešinović
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Abstract

The paper examines independently composed clauses in the French language in which the semantic relation of conditionality is recognized. These sentences are two-part, coordinated, and juxtaposed sentence structures that differ typologically. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to determine the types of sentences involved, identify their basic grammatical and semantic features, and then explore specificities that emerge in certain contexts during the semantic interpretation of such sentence structures. 6 types of conditional independently composed clauses are distinguished according to the basic syntactic-semantic features of the first clause, which in these two-part structures is the carrier of conditional semantics, which was confirmed in all the above examples by paraphrases in which a dependent conditional clause replaces the first clause with the conjunction si.

Društvene i humanističke studijeVol. 10(1(27))
University of Sarajevo (BA)
Openalex Percentile: Top 46%
linguistics and terminology studies
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