Description
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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
316 pages
Language
English
Published
Mar 19, 2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editions
3 editions
ISBN-10
052110324X
ISBN-13
9780521103244