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Puente-Castelo, Luis. 2019. “‘Were this eſtimation, however, to be depended on’: Inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change in CHET”. In Moskowich, Isabel; Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo & Leida Maria Monaco (eds.) Writing history in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 130–147. ISBN 978-90-272-6201-1
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[Abstract] Inversion conditionals are one of the main examples of the versatility of scientific writing, as they do not require a conditional subordinator, expressing conditionality by means of inverting the operator of the protasis. However, their use as a different strategy to encode conditionality has been shown to mirror the paradigmatic evolution of scientific writing from scholasticism to contemporary scientific practice in previous research (Puente-Castelo 2017). The aim of this paper is to examine the use of inversion conditionals in CHET, the subsection on history of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. CHET will be searched for selected conditional particles and, after disambiguation, each occurrence will be classified according to a series of linguistic and socio-historical parameters. The results will be examined to check whether the parallelism between the uses of inversion conditionals and the paradigmatic evolution of scientific discourse found in other disciplines extends to texts on history as well.