Mental spaces in grammar: conditional constructions

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

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Main Author: Dancygier, Barbara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics 108
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Summary:Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality. Using a broad range of attested English conditional constructions, the book examines inter-constructional relationships. Within the framework of Mental Spaces Theory, shared parameters of meaning are shown to be relevant to conditional constructions generally, as well as related temporal and causal constructions. This significant contribution to the field will be welcomed by a wide range of researchers in theoretical and cognitive linguistics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 295 pages)
ISBN:9780511486760
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511486760

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