Mental spaces in grammar : conditional constructions

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Mental spaces in grammar : conditional constructions

Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser

(Cambridge studies in linguistics, 108)

Cambridge University Press, 2009, c2005

  • : pbk

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and indexes

Originally published: 2005

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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