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(Words, Author, Subject, ISBN) Publishers [spacer.gif] [spacer.gif] Email a friend about this book [spacer.gif] [spacer.gif] Mental Spaces In Grammar: Conditional Constructions Format Hardcover Subject Language Arts / Linguistics ISBN/SKU 0521844681 Author Eve Sweetser Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr Publish Date July 2005 Price $90.00 Qualified Frequent Buyer Price: $81.00 Out of Print Table of Contents Acknowledgments xii Preface xv Note on abbreviated citations xvii The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: an informal lesson in frame metonymy 1 (268) 1 Conditional constructions, mental spaces, and semantic compositionality 4 (24) 1.1 Conditionals and conditional reasoning 4 (5) 1.2 Constructional meaning and compositionality 9 (7) 1.3 Mental spaces and constructions 16 (5) 1.4 A word about our data and methods 21 (3) 1.5 The grammatical "door-scraper": compositionality and frames 24 (3) 1.6 Where we're headed 27 (1) 2 Prediction, alternativity, and epistemic stance 28 (28) 2.1 Conditionals and mental-space set-ups 28 (3) 2.2 Prediction and reasoning 31 (4) 2.3 Alternativity and "biconditional" interpretation 35 (8) 2.4 Prediction and epistemic stance: background and backshifting 43 (2) 2.5 Epistemic stance and mental-space set-ups 45 (9) 2.6 Conclusions 54 (2) 3 Tense, epistemic distance, and embedded spaces 56 (24) 3.1 The polysemy of past-tense forms 56 (1) 3.2 Epistemic distance 57 (4) 3.3 Degrees of distancing 61 (4) 3.4 Perspective and mental-space embeddings 65 (6) 3.5 Counterfactuality: distance and mental-space embeddings 71 (7) 3.6 Conclusions 78 (2) 4 Future and present forms in conditional constructions 80 (30) 4.1 Verb forms and constructional meaning 80 (1) 4.2 Will futures and gonna futures 81 (2) 4.3 Positive-interest will 83 (4) 4.4 Future will in protases of non-predictive conditionals 87 (2) 4.5 Present forms with future meaning 89 (6) 4.6 Generic meanings 95 (7) 4.7 Definitions and tautologies 102 (3) 4.8 Specialized constructions with was to /were to, if not for, and should 105 (3) 4.9 Conclusions 108 (2) 5 Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains 110 (32) 5.1 Non-prediction and non-alternativity 110 (3) 5.2 Speech-act conditionals 113 (4) 5.3 Epistemic conditionals, inference, and causality 117 (4) 5.4 Non-predictiveness and verb forms 121 (3) 5.5 Predictive epistemic conditionals 124 (2) 5.6 Metalinguistic conditionals: predictive and non-predictive uses 126 (6) 5.7 A note on meta-metaphorical conditionals 132 (4) 5.8 Metaspatial conditionals 136 (1) 5.9 A note on frequency 137 (2) 5.10 Evidence from German parallels 139 (1) 5.11 Conclusions 140 (2) 6 Then and even if mental-space deixis and referential uniqueness 142 (30) 6.1 Then and biconditionality: what is the link? 142 (2) 6.2 Deictic semantics and mental-space reference 144 (2) 6.3 Then in non-predictives 146 (5) 6.4 Then and generic conditionals 151 (4) 6.5 Concessive conditionals: prediction without specific alternatives 155 (6) 6.6 Even if and then: the exceptions that prove the rule 161 (7) 6.7 A final note on even then 168 (2) 6.8 Conclusions 170 (2) 7 Clause order and space building: if, because, unless, and except if 172 (32) 7.1 Introduction 172 (1) 7.2 If-constructions: variation in intonation and order of clauses 173 (7) 7.3 Because and since: causal explanation and information structure in space building 180 (3) 7.4 Unless: exceptive space building 183 (4) 7.5 Embedded constructions with unless 187 (15) 7.6 Conclusions 202 (2) 8 Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only 204 (33) 8.1 Only if space uniqueness and negative meaning 204 (7) 8.2 If only: wishes, pragmatic scales, and minimal differences 211 (6) 8.3 Monoclausal if-only wishes 217 (3) 8.4 Tense and epistemic stance in embedded wish- and if-only clauses 220 (2) 8.5 Then in if-only conditionals 222 (1) 8.6 Scopal relations, polysemy, and compositionality 223 (4) 8.7 Negative epistemic stance and space-builders 227 (3) 8.8 The if that NEG construction 230 (3) 8.9 Positive-stance if-only? 233 (3) 8.10 Conclusions 236 (1) 9 Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning 237 (32) 9.1 And-conjuncts as predictive conditionals 237 (5) 9.2 Imperative and-conditionals 242 (4) 9.3 Distancing, non-predictives, and other extensions of and-conditionals 246 (2) 9.4 Conditional or 248 (5) 9.5 Non-clausal P constituents in coordinate conditionals 253 (2) 9.6 Paired constituents with no conjunction 255 (4) 9.7 Non-clausal coordinate conditionals without conjunctions 259 (4) 9.8 "Freestanding" parts of conditionals 263 (3) 9.9 Conclusions: constructions and compositionality 266 (3) 10 The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building 269 (9) 10.1 Form-function parameters of conditionality 269 (3) 10.2 Constructional compositionality and frame-based space building 272 (6) References 278 (11) Author index 289 (2) Subject index 291 PDF Document (Requires Adobe Reader) QuickSearch ______________________________ Go! 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