Charles A. Ferguson

On Conditionals

Herausgeber: Meulen, Alice Ter; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

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Produktbeschreibung

On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521113274
• ISBN-10: 052111327X
• Artikelnr.: 26182831

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. General Studies: 1. Overview Charles A. Gerguson, Judy Snitzer
Reilly, Alice ter Meulen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott; 2. Conditionals and
conditional information John Barwise; 3. Conditions and mental models P. N.
Johnson-Laird; 4. Conditionals: a typology Bernard Comrie; Part II.
Particular Studies: 5. On the interpretation of 'donkey'-sentences Tanya
Reinhart; 6. Generic information, conditional contexts and constraints
Alice ter Meulen; 7. Data semantics and the pragmatics of indicative
conditionals Frank Verltman; 8. Remarks on the semantics and pragmatics of
conditionals Ernest W. Adams; 9. The use of conditionals in inducements and
deterrents Samuel Fillenbaum; 10. Conditionals and speech acts Johan van
der Auwera; 11. Constraints on the form and meaning of the protasis John
Haiman; 12. Conditionals, concessive conditionals and concessives: areas of
contrast, overlap and neutralization Ekkehard König; 13. The
realis-irrealis continuum in the classical Greek conditional Joseph H.
Greenberg; 14. The historical development of SI-clauses in Romance Martin
B. Harris; 15. First steps in acquiring conditionals Melissa Bowerman; 16.
The acquisition of temporals and conditionals Judy Snitzer Reilly; 17.
Conditionals are discourse-bound Noriko Akatsuka; 18. Conditionals in
discourse: a text-based study from English Cecilia E. Ford and Sandra A.
Thomspon; Indices.