Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815333098)

First Published in 1999. This book investigates the meaning of conditional protasis markers like Spanish si 'if' and English if from a pragmatic perspective. A standard assumption in linguistics is that these words encode as part of their semantics notions like hypothetical, irrealis, or, from the speaker's point of view, uncertain, as in constructed examples like (la), where speaker B is unsure whether the proposition she's eating is true or not.

Author: Scott Schwenter
ISBN-10: 0815333099
ISBN-13: 9780815333098
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.01h x 5.96w x 0.90d