| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface |
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| Note on abbreviated citations |
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| The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: an informal lesson in frame metonymy |
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1 Conditional constructions, mental spaces, and semantic compositionality |
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1.1 Conditionals and conditional reasoning |
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1.2 Constructional meaning and compositionality |
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1.3 Mental spaces and constructions |
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1.4 A word about our data and methods |
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21 | (3) |
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1.5 The grammatical "door-scraper": compositionality and frames |
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24 | (3) |
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2 Prediction, alternativity, and epistemic stance |
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2.1 Conditionals and mental-space set-ups |
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2.2 Prediction and reasoning |
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31 | (4) |
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2.3 Alternativity and "biconditional" interpretation |
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35 | (8) |
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2.4 Prediction and epistemic stance: background and backshifting |
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43 | (2) |
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2.5 Epistemic stance and mental-space set-ups |
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45 | (9) |
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54 | (2) |
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3 Tense, epistemic distance, and embedded spaces |
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56 | (24) |
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3.1 The polysemy of past-tense forms |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (4) |
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3.3 Degrees of distancing |
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61 | (4) |
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3.4 Perspective and mental-space embeddings |
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65 | (6) |
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3.5 Counterfactuality: distance and mental-space embeddings |
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71 | (7) |
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78 | (2) |
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4 Future and present forms in conditional constructions |
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4.1 Verb forms and constructional meaning |
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80 | (1) |
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4.2 Will futures and gonna futures |
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81 | (2) |
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4.3 Positive-interest will |
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83 | (4) |
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4.4 Future will in protases of non-predictive conditionals |
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87 | (2) |
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4.5 Present forms with future meaning |
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89 | (6) |
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95 | (7) |
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4.7 Definitions and tautologies |
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102 | (3) |
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4.8 Specialized constructions with was to /were to, if not for, and should |
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105 | (3) |
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108 | (2) |
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5 Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains |
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110 | (32) |
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5.1 Non-prediction and non-alternativity |
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110 | (3) |
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5.2 Speech-act conditionals |
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113 | (4) |
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5.3 Epistemic conditionals, inference, and causality |
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117 | (4) |
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5.4 Non-predictiveness and verb forms |
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121 | (3) |
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5.5 Predictive epistemic conditionals |
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124 | (2) |
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5.6 Metalinguistic conditionals: predictive and non-predictive uses |
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126 | (6) |
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5.7 A note on meta-metaphorical conditionals |
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132 | (4) |
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5.8 Metaspatial conditionals |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
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5.10 Evidence from German parallels |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (2) |
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6 Then and even if mental-space deixis and referential uniqueness |
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142 | (30) |
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6.1 Then and biconditionality: what is the link? |
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142 | (2) |
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6.2 Deictic semantics and mental-space reference |
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144 | (2) |
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6.3 Then in non-predictives |
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146 | (5) |
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6.4 Then and generic conditionals |
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151 | (4) |
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6.5 Concessive conditionals: prediction without specific alternatives |
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155 | (6) |
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6.6 Even if and then: the exceptions that prove the rule |
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161 | (7) |
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6.7 A final note on even then |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (2) |
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7 Clause order and space building: if, because, unless, and except if |
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172 | (32) |
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172 | (1) |
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7.2 If-constructions: variation in intonation and order of clauses |
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173 | (7) |
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7.3 Because and since: causal explanation and information structure in space building |
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180 | (3) |
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7.4 Unless: exceptive space building |
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183 | (4) |
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7.5 Embedded constructions with unless |
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187 | (15) |
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202 | (2) |
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8 Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only |
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204 | (33) |
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8.1 Only if space uniqueness and negative meaning |
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204 | (7) |
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8.2 If only: wishes, pragmatic scales, and minimal differences |
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211 | (6) |
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8.3 Monoclausal if-only wishes |
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217 | (3) |
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8.4 Tense and epistemic stance in embedded wish- and if-only clauses |
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220 | (2) |
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8.5 Then in if-only conditionals |
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222 | (1) |
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8.6 Scopal relations, polysemy, and compositionality |
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223 | (4) |
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8.7 Negative epistemic stance and space-builders |
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227 | (3) |
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8.8 The if that NEG construction |
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230 | (3) |
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8.9 Positive-stance if-only? |
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233 | (3) |
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236 | (1) |
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9 Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning |
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237 | (32) |
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9.1 And-conjuncts as predictive conditionals |
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237 | (5) |
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9.2 Imperative and-conditionals |
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242 | (4) |
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9.3 Distancing, non-predictives, and other extensions of and-conditionals |
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246 | (2) |
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248 | (5) |
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9.5 Non-clausal P constituents in coordinate conditionals |
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253 | (2) |
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9.6 Paired constituents with no conjunction |
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255 | (4) |
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9.7 Non-clausal coordinate conditionals without conjunctions |
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259 | (4) |
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9.8 "Freestanding" parts of conditionals |
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263 | (3) |
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9.9 Conclusions: constructions and compositionality |
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266 | (3) |
| 10 The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building |
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269 | (9) |
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10.1 Form-function parameters of conditionality |
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269 | (3) |
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10.2 Constructional compositionality and frame-based space building |
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272 | (6) |
| References |
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278 | (11) |
| Author index |
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289 | (2) |
| Subject index |
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