Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Aspects of meaning that are better captured by their use-conditions instead came into the spotlight of formal semantics recently, mainly due to the raised interest in expressions like interjections or swear words. Going beyond such expressives, the contributions provide detailed semantic analyses of a broad range of use-conditional items, including particles, non-inflectional constructions, personal datives and interpretational effects of focus. This volume thereby proves that the empirical domain of use-conditional meaning is as diverse as the truth-conditional one, equally amenable to systematic semantic treatments. This book is an exciting, eye-opening collection of novel and challenging data from English, German and Japanese. For anyone who needs persuading that there is more to language expressivity than informational content, this book is a must. For those who need no persuading, this book will be no less a treat. It offers to all not merely sets of entrancing new observations, but also analyses which feed one’s imagination as to how best to extend current methodologies to make these data tractable for formal modelling. Ruth Kempson, King’s College

Semantics. --- Emotive (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Conditionals (Grammar) --- Hypothetical clauses (Grammar) --- Protasis (Grammar) --- Affective meaning (Linguistics) --- Emotive meaning (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Connotation (Linguistics) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Conditionals. --- Conditional clauses --- Conditional constructions --- Conditional sentences --- Hypothetical clauses --- Protasis --- Mood --- Sentences --- Grammar, comparative and general --- Conditionals --- Linguistics --- Philology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

English language --- Conditionals --- Sentences --- Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- -Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- English language. --- English language - Conditionals. --- English Language --- Conditionals. --- Sentences. --- -802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis semantiek --- Conditional clauses --- Conditional constructions --- Conditional sentences --- Hypothetical clauses --- Protasis --- Konditionalsatz. --- Englisch --- Konditionalsatz --- Englisch. --- Grammatik --- 802.0-56 --- -English language --- -802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Mood --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Grammar --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- English language - Conditionals --- English language - Sentences --- Acqui 2006

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Conditionals are sentences of the form 'If A, then B', and they play a central role in scientific, logical, and everyday reasoning. They have been in the philosophical limelight for centuries, and more recently, they have been receiving attention from psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists. In spite of this, many key questions concerning conditionals remain unanswered. While most of the work on conditionals has addressed semantical questions - questions about the truth conditions of conditionals - this book focuses on the main epistemological questions that conditionals give rise to, such as: what are the probabilities of conditionals? When is a conditional acceptable or assertable? What do we learn when we receive new conditional information? In answering these questions, this book combines the formal tools of logic and probability theory with the experimental approach of cognitive psychology. It will be of interest to students and researchers in logic, epistemology, and psychology of reasoning.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Conditionals (Grammar) --- Hypothetical clauses (Grammar) --- Protasis (Grammar) --- Conditionals. --- Conditional clauses --- Conditional constructions --- Conditional sentences --- Hypothetical clauses --- Protasis --- Mood --- Sentences --- Linguistics --- Philology