Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521844680)

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
ISBN-10: 0521844681
ISBN-13: 9780521844680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2005
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.28w x 0.94d