Mental Spaces in Grammar

Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

by Dancygier, Barbara

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In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality.

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  • Full title :Mental Spaces in Grammar : Conditional Constructions / Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser.

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In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780511486760, 0511486766, 9780521844680, 0521844681, 9780521103244, 052110324X
  • oclc:on1170732041
  • LC Classification:P292.5
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Note on abbreviated citations; The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: an informal lesson in frame metonymy; 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; Author Index; Subject Index

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Subjects

Cognitive grammar Conditionnel Grammaire cognitive Grammar, Comparative and general -- Con… semantics Sémantique

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Dancygier, Barbara Sweetser, Eve

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