On conditionals again [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Conditionals
• Altri autori: AthanasiadouAngeliki DirvenRené
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ON CONDITIONALS AGAIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I. The core of conditionals; Conditionals and Counterfactuais: conceptual primitives and linguistic universais; Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality; The relation between past time reference andcounterfactuality: a new look; Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals; PART II. Single conditional constructions; UNLESS and BUT conditionals: a historicalperspective; Conditional Perfection; Generics and habituais; Conditionals and Restrictives on Generics ; PART III. Basic dimensions of conditionalityConditionality as Cognitive Distance; Conceptualization: Conditionals as an instance offigure/ground alignment; Conditionals and Polarity; Conditionality in dimensional perspective; PART IV. Conditionals in use; Negative conditionality, subjectification, andconditional reasoning; The emergence of conditionals in child language:Are they really so late?; Speaking Conditionally: Some Contexts for If-Clauses In Conversation; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of issues and aspects with insights drawn from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualisation. One major question is therefore what conceptual categories fall under conditionality or how far the notion of conditionality can be extended.The volume represents the up-to-date re
• Titolo autorizzato: On conditionals again
• ISBN: 1-283-31246-8; 9786613312464; 90-272-7598-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781472403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 143.