Muutke küpsiste eelistusi

Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions [Pehme köide]

4.83/5 (6 hinnangut Goodreads-ist)
(University of California, Berkeley), (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 316 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x18 mm, kaal: 470 g, 20 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Sari: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2009
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 052110324X
  • ISBN-13: 9780521103244
Teised raamatud teemal:
Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional ConstructionsSuurem pilt
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 316 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x18 mm, kaal: 470 g, 20 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Sari: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2009
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 052110324X
  • ISBN-13: 9780521103244
Teised raamatud teemal:
Püsilink: https://www.kriso.ee/db/9780521103244.html
Märksõnad:
Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality. Using a broad range of attested English conditional constructions, the book examines inter-constructional relationships. Within the framework of Mental Spaces Theory, shared parameters of meaning are shown to be relevant to conditional constructions generally, as well as related temporal and causal constructions. This significant contribution to the field will be welcomed by a wide range of researchers in theoretical and cognitive linguistics.

Arvustused

' a thorough and challenging analysis of conditional constructions in English a genuinely new approach Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions is an excellent and intriguing study.' Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences ' a thorough and challenging analysis of conditional constructions in English. a genuinely new approach Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions is an excellent and intriguing study ' William Van Belle and Ingrid Van Canegem-Ardijns, University of Leuven

Muu info

In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality
Acknowledgments xii
Preface xv
Note on abbreviated citations xvii
The door -scraper in the Wild Wood: an informal lesson in frame metonymy 1(3)
Conditional constructions, mental spaces, and sematntic compositionality
4(24)
Conditionals and conditional reasoning
4(5)
Constructional meaning and compositionality
9(7)
Mental spaces and constructions
16(5)
A word about our data and methods
21(3)
The grammatical ``door-scraper'': compositionality and frames
24(3)
Where we're headed
27(1)
Prediction, alternativity, and epistemic stance
28(28)
Conditionals and mental-space set-ups
28(3)
Prediction and reasoning
31(4)
Alternativity and ``biconditional''interpretation
35(8)
Prediction and epistemic stance: background and backshifting
43(2)
Epistemic stance and mental-space set-ups
45(9)
Conclusions
54(2)
Tense, epistemic distance, and embedded spaces
56(24)
The polysemy of past-tense forms
56(1)
Epistemic distance
57(4)
Degrees of distancing
61(4)
Perspective and mental-space embeddings
65(6)
Counterfactuality: distance and mental-space embeddings
71(7)
Conclusions
78(2)
Future and present forms in conditional constructions
80(30)
Verb forms and constructional meaning
80(1)
Will futures and gonna futures
81(2)
Positive-interest will
83(4)
Future will in protases of non-predictive conditionals
87(2)
Present forms with future meaning
89(6)
Generic meanings
95(7)
Definitions and tautologies
102(3)
Specialized constructions with was to/were to, if not for, and should
105(3)
Conclusions
108(2)
Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains
110(32)
Non-prediction and non-alternativity
110(3)
Speech-act conditionals
113(4)
Epistemic conditionals, inference, and causality
117(4)
Non-predictiveness and verb forms
121(3)
Predictive epistemic conditionals
124(2)
Metalinguistic conditionals: predictive and non-predictive uses
126(6)
A note on meta-metaphorical conditionals
132(1)
Metaspatial conditionals
132(5)
A note on frequency
137(2)
Evidence from German parallels
139(1)
Conclusions
140(2)
Then and even if: mental-space deixis and referential uniqueness
142(30)
Then and biconditionality: what is the link?
142(2)
Deictic semantics and mental-space reference
144(2)
Then in non-predictives
146(5)
Then and generic conditionals
151(4)
Concessive conditionals: prediction without specific alternatives
155(6)
Even if and then: the exceptions that prove the rule
161(7)
A final note on even then
168(2)
Conclusions
170(2)
Clause order and space building: if, because, unless, and except if
172(32)
Introduction
172(1)
If-constructions: variation in intonation and order of clauses
173(7)
Because and since: causal explanation and information structure in space building
180(3)
Unless: exceptive space building
183(4)
Embedded constructions with unless
187(15)
Conclusions
202(2)
Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only
204(33)
only if: space uniqueness and negative meaning
204(7)
If only: wishes, pragmatic scales, and minimal differences
211(6)
Monoclausal if-only wishes
217(3)
Tense and epistemic stance in embedded wish-and if-only clauses
220(2)
Then in if-only conditionals
222(1)
Scopal relations, polysemy, and compositionality
223(4)
Negative epistemic stance and space-builders
227(3)
The if that NEG construction
230(3)
Postive-stance if-only?
233(3)
Conclusions
236(1)
Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning
237(32)
And-conjuncts as predictive conditionals
237(5)
Imperative and-conditionals
242(4)
Distancing, non-predictives, and other extensions of and-conditionals
246(2)
Conditional or
248(5)
Non-clausal P constituents in corrdinate conditionals
253(2)
Paired constitutents with no conjunction
255(4)
Non-clausal coordinate conditionals without conjunctions
259(4)
``Freestanding'' parts of conditionals
263(3)
Conclusions: constructions and compositionality
266(3)
The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building
269(9)
Form-function parameters of conditionality
269(3)
Constructional compositionality and frame-based space building
272(6)
References 278(11)
Author index 289(2)
Subject index 291
Barbara Dancygier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of British Columbia. Eve Sweetser is Professor, Department of Linguistics and Director, Program in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.