Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

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.

Author: Barbara Dancygier,Eve Sweetser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/07/2005
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.28w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780521844680

About the Author
Dancygier, Barbara: - Barbara Dancygier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of British Columbia.Sweetser, Eve: - Eve Sweetser is Professor, Department of Linguistics and Director, Program in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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