On Conditionals
by Elizabeth Closs Traugott , Alice Ter Meulen , Judy Snitzer Reilly , Charles A. FergusonEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2009-06-18
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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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