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On Conditionals Again
Editors
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.
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 143] 1997. viii, 418 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
- IntroductionAngeliki Athanasiadou | p. 1
- Part I: The core of conditionals
- Conditionals and counterfactuals: conceptual primitives and linguistic universalsAnna Wierzbicka | p. 15
- Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactualityAngeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven | p. 61
- The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality: a new lookÖsten Dahl | p. 97
- Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionalsJohn Tynan and Eva Delgado Lavin | p. 115
- Part II: Single conditional constructions
- Unless and but conditionals: a historical perspectiveElizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 145
- Conditional perfectionJohan van der Auwera | p. 169
- Generics and habitualsRonald W. Langacker | p. 191
- Conditionals and restrictives on genericsYael Ziv | p. 223
- Part III: Basic dimensions of conditionality
- Conditionality as cognitive distancePaul Werth | p. 243
- Conceptualization: conditionals as an instance of figure/ground alignmentElżbieta Tabakowska | p. 273
- Conditionals and polarityJohn R. Taylor | p. 289
- Conditionality in dimensional perspectiveHansjakob Seiler | p. 307
- Part IV: Conditionals in use
- Negative conditionality, subjectification, and conditional reasoningNoriko Akatsuka | p. 323
- The emergence of conditionals in child language: are they really so late?Demetra Katis | p. 355
- Speaking conditionally: some contexts for if-clauses in conversationCecilia E. Ford | p. 387
- Subject Index | pp. 415–418
“[...] a comprehensive survey of current research in the field of conditionality.”
Vera I. Podlesskaya, Russian State University of Humanities
“[...] a success at taking stock and a promising beginning in sorting out the conceptual categories. It is a book that any serious student of the topic will want to have.”
Gary B. Palmer, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
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