On Conditionals Again: 143 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902723647X ISBN 13: 9789027236470

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1997

Synopsis

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 research on most aspects of conditionality some of which include the relationship between conditionality, hypotheticality and counterfactuality, polarity, historical perspectives, concessives, the acquisition of conditionals.

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Synopsis

This volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on "conditionality" held at the University of Duisburg in March 1994. They explore issues and aspects of conditionality with insights drawn from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualization. The book considers what conceptual categories fall under conditionality and how far the notion of conditionality can be extended.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902723647X
• ISBN 13: 9789027236470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Athanasiadou Angeliki, Dirven † René