ENGLISH

On Conditionals

By Alice Ter Meulen , Elizabeth Closs Traugott , Charles A. Ferguson , Judy Snitzer Reilly

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780511753466, 9780521306447, 9780521113274
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511753466
Google Books ID
_MiCPwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4267722 bytes)
Pages
397\397
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

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.

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