Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity
(Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1138868388
ISBN13:9781138868380
Release Date:June 2015
Publisher:Routledge
Length:275 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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