On Conditionals Again

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236470

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On Conditionals Again by Angeliki Athanasiadou,René Dirven Pdf

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.

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275981

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On Conditionals Again by Angeliki Athanasiadou,René Dirven Pdf

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.

Author : Anwar Tjen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780567074836

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On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch by Anwar Tjen Pdf

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax. It takes seriously into account the double character of Septuagintal Greek, both as a translation from Hebrew and as vernacular Greek. Methodologically, the underlying Hebrew is taken as the point of departure in close comparison with the resultant translation, with the purpose of examining major features in the translators? handling of this complex construction. These include the rendering of verbal and non-verbal forms in the protasis and apodosis, the question of sense-division between the two constituent clauses, the influence of genre or discourse type and interference from the underlying form or structure. Detailed analyses of the resultant translation displays features that are natural Greek, on the one hand, and features that betray the character of "translation-language", on the other hand, owing to interference from the source text. The latter manifests itself most conspicuously in renderings that are ungrammatical or unnatural, and, in a more subtle way, through equivalents which are grammatically acceptable but occur with a strikingly high frequency in the Septuagint as compared with original Greek compositions contemporary with the Septuagint.

Author : Chi-Hé Elder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030137991

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Context, Cognition and Conditionals by Chi-Hé Elder Pdf

This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’. It presents theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of language.

Author : Stefan Kaufmann,David E. Over,Ghanshyam Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031056826

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Conditionals by Stefan Kaufmann,David E. Over,Ghanshyam Sharma Pdf

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic. Across 13 chapters, the authors not only investigate and examine various commonly-held perceptions about conditionals, but they also challenge many of the assumptions underpinning current conditionals scholarship, setting an agenda for future research. Based in part on the papers presented at a unique international summer school - Conditionals in Paris - this volume represents the cutting edge in the study of conditionals, and it will be of interest to scholars in fields including linguistics and psychology, semiotics, philosophy and logic, and artificial intelligence.

Author : Renaat Declerck,Susan Reed
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110851748

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Conditionals by Renaat Declerck,Susan Reed Pdf

This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of conditionals (including tense and mood options) and the functions of conditionals in discourse are examined in depth, producing an all-round linguistic view of the subject which contains a wealth of original observations and analyses. Not only linguists specializing in grammar but also those interested in pragmatics and the philosophy of language will find this book a rewarding and illuminating source.

Author : Sylviane Granger,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Fanny Meunier
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782875581990

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Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research. Looking Back, Moving Ahead by Sylviane Granger,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Fanny Meunier Pdf

This proceedings volume covers issues of learner corpus design, collection and annotation and contains reports on various aspects of (written and spoken) learner interlanguage as well as design of learner-corpus-informed tools.

Author : William G. Lycan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191515903

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Real Conditionals by William G. Lycan Pdf

Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences. William G. Lycan has a distinctive approach to this debate, attending not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their syntax. He shows how insights from linguistic theory help to illuminate problems about the meaning and function of conditionals. For instance, philosophers and logicians have had problems analysing the locutions 'only if', 'unless', and 'even if'. Lycan sets out a general semantic theory of conditionals which works for all such sentences; he assigns meanings to them in a way that explains how and why those meanings depend upon features of utterance context. According to Lycan's theory the 'if'-clauses refer to items called 'events', 'circumstances', or 'conditions'. Real Conditionals gives at last the definitive presentation of this original approach to a topic at the intersection of philosophy, logic, and linguistics. Lycan's characteristically lively and witty expository style ensures that it can be enjoyed by readers from all three disciplines.

Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139425506

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Conditionals and Prediction by Barbara Dancygier Pdf

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. Dancygier suggests that the function of prediction is central to the definition of conditionality, and that conditional sentences display certain formal features which correlate to aspects of interpretation. Although the analysis is based primarily on English, it provides a theoretical framework that can be extended cross-linguistically to a broad range of grammatical phenomena. It will be essential reading for scholars and students concerned with the role of conditionals in English and many other languages.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262264433

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Conditionals by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how conditionals actually function in our thought and discourse. In its concern with what language theorists call pragmatics—the study of the norms and principles governing our use of language in conveying information—Conditionals steps beyond the limits of logic as traditionally understood and moves into the realm claimed by theorists of artificial intelligence as they try to simulate our actual information-processing practices. The book's treatment of counterfactuals essentially revives an epistemological approach proposed by F. P. Ramsey in the 1920s and developed by Rescher himself in the 1960s but since overshadowed by the now-dominant possible-worlds approach. Rescher argues that the increasingly evident liabilities of the possible-worlds strategy make a reappraisal of the older style of analysis both timely and desirable. As the book makes clear, an epistemological approach demonstrates that counterfactual reasoning, unlike inductive inference, is not a matter of abstract reasoning alone but one of good judgment and common sense.

Author : Scott Schwenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135681661

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Pragmatics of Conditional Marking by Scott Schwenter Pdf

First Published in 1999. This book investigates the meaning of conditional protasis markers like Spanish si 'if' and English if from a pragmatic perspective. A standard assumption in linguistics is that these words encode as part of their semantics notions like hypothetical, irrealis, or, from the speaker's point of view, uncertain, as in constructed examples like (la), where speaker B is unsure whether the proposition she's eating is true or not.

Author : Jane F. Hacking
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230416

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Coding the Hypothetical by Jane F. Hacking Pdf

Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which they do so vary. This work explores some of this variation through an analysis of the stucture and semantics of complex conditional sentences in Russian and Macedonian. It addresses typological questions about the general properties of natural language conditionals and examines the role of the grammatical categories tense, aspect, mood and status in the coding of conditional meaning. The book also discusses the relationship between the use of these categories and the shape of a language's conditional system. For example, the use of tense in counterfactual contexts in Macedonian correlates with the grammaticalization of more shades of conditional meaning than are grammaticalized in Russian, which does not employ tense forms in this way. The study draws on data from a rich variety of sources and thus includes kinds of conditionals overlooked in many other studies. The book addresses issues of concern to Slavists and raises questions for those interested in conditionals and the coding of hypothetical meaning.

Author : Carol Winifred Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Conditionals (Logic)
ISBN : MSU:31293031694619

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Conversation and Conditionals Again by Carol Winifred Slater Pdf

Author : Susanne Niemeier
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823391302

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Task-based grammar teaching of English by Susanne Niemeier Pdf

The focus on communication in TBLT often comes at the expense of form. In this book, the task-based approach is enhanced and coupled with insights into (cognitive) grammar, an approach which sees grammar as meaningful. The book shows how grammar teaching can be integrated into a communicative lesson in a non-explicit way, i.e., "by the backdoor". The learners are involved in situations that they may also encounter outside their classrooms and they are given communicative tasks they are to work on and solve, usually with a partner or in small groups. What teachers need to invest for preparing such lessons is their own creativity, as they have to come up with communicative situations which guide the learners into using a specific grammatical structure. The book first discusses the didactic and the linguistic theories involved and then translates these theoretical perspectives into actual teaching practice, focusing on the following grammatical phenomena: tense, aspect, modality, conditionals, passive voice, prepositions, phrasal verbs, verb complementation, pronouns and articles.

Author : Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589443

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Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases by Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn Pdf

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.