Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

ISBN-13: 9780521103244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 316 str.

Barbara Dancygier; Eve Sweetser

Opis

Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. Eve Sweetser and Barbara Dancygier offer a new descriptive framework by broadening the range of study. Using a gamut of English conditional constructions, they explore issues such as the compositionality of constructional meaning, describing both the mental-space building processes underlying conditional thinking, and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality.