Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

by Eve Sweetser and Barbara Dancygier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521844681
• ISBN13: 9780521844680
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"