Mental Spaces in Grammar - Conditional Constructions

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Dancygier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of British Columbia. Klappentext In this pioneering new study! Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Conditional constructions, mental spaces and semantic compositionality; 2. Prediction, alternativity and epistemic stance; 3. Tense, epistemic distance and embedded spaces; 4. Future and present forms in conditional constructions; 5. Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains; 6. Then and even if: mental-space deixis and referential uniqueness; 7. Clause order and space building: if, because, unless and except if; 8. Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only; 9. Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning; 10. The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building; References; Indexes.

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• Authors: Barbara Dancygier, Barbara (University of British Columbia Dancygier, Eve Sweetser, Eve Dancygier Sweetser
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521844680
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84468-0
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics