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Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 108

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0521844681
ISBN13: 9780521844680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 7 2005
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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.

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