Mental spaces in grammar : conditional constructions /

Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists and philosophers. In this pioneering study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. This significant contribution...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dancygier, Barbara
Autres auteurs: Sweetser, Eve
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Collection:Cambridge studies in linguistics.
Sujets:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals.
Cognitive grammar.
Semantics.
Conditionnel.
Grammaire cognitive.
Sémantique.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Conditional constructions, mental spaces, and semantic compositionality
  • Prediction, alternativity, and epistemic stance
  • Tense, epistemic distance, and embedded spaces
  • Future and present forms in conditional constructions
  • Non-alternatives and alternatives : mental spaces in different domains
  • Then and even if : mental space deixis and referential uniqueness
  • Clause order and space-building : if, because, unless, and except if
  • Uniqueness and negative stance : only if and if only
  • Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning
  • The door-scraper in the Wild Wood : conditional constructions and frame-based space-building.

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