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9780521113274

On Conditionals

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521113274

  • ISBN10:

    052111327X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-18
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences directly reflect the language user's ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the inferential strategies and the cognitive and linguistic processes of human beings. The present volume brings together studies from several perspectives - philosophical, linguistic and psychological - and aims to emphasise the intrinsic connections between the issues to be addressed and to point to new directions for interdisciplinary work.

Table of Contents

General Studies
Overview
Conditionals and conditional information
Conditions and mental models
Conditionals: a typology
Particular Studies
On the interpretation of 'donkey'-sentences
Generic information, conditional contexts and constraints
Data semantics and the pragmatics of indicative conditionals
Remarks on the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals
The use of conditionals in inducements and deterrents
Conditionals and speech acts
Constraints on the form and meaning of the protasis
Conditionals, concessive conditionals and concessives: areas of contrast, overlap and neutralization
The realis-irrealis continuum in the classical Greek conditional
The historical development of SI-clauses in Romance
First steps in acquiring conditionals
The acquisition of temporals and conditionals
Conditionals are discourse-bound
Conditionals in discourse: a text-based study from English
Indices
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