Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

by Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser

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.

Genres: Linguistics

316 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005