[Corpora-List] if + would

From: J-C Khalifa (jck@ricky.univ-poitiers.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 11:07:50 MET

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    Dear all,

    I guess it's not really woodchucker stories Parween had in mind, but rather
    examples like :

    If he would have had these kind of balls in October 2004, he would be
    president

    (excuse my French, that's the 1st example a random search returned, and
    it's even more interesting with the counterfactual HAVE + PP on top of the
    if...would)

    Parween, it's really things like (I'm just making this one up) : "If he
    would come, we would go to the movies" you're interested in, or am I wrong?

    Here's another one :

    If he would slip because of his injury...

    I don't have enough context for this one, but clearly the volitional value
    of WILL/WOULD is excluded. It's true that kind of thing seems to be
    cropping up more & more, especially in American English. I've never done
    any research into the matter, but it does look like a trend, and I'd be
    interested in any quantitative data too!

    Best,

    Jean-Charles

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