BOOKS by Eve E. Sweetser

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar more books like this

by Gilles Fauconnier (Editor), Eve E Sweetser (Editor), Eve Sweerser (Editor)

In the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought. These 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in ...

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From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture more books like this

by Eve E Sweetser

This book offers a distinct approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's argument shows that they can be analysed both readily and systematically. Meaning ...

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Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions more books like this

by Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser

Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space ...

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