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Mental Spaces In Grammar: Conditional Constructions
FormatHardcover
SubjectLanguage Arts / Linguistics
ISBN/SKU0521844681
AuthorEve Sweetser
PublisherCambridge Univ Pr
Publish DateJuly 2005
  
Price$90.00
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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
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