1st Edition
Pragmatics of Conditional Marking Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity
By Scott Schwenter
Copyright 1999
275 Pages
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Routledge
278 Pages
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Routledge
275 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Conditional Markers: Semantics; Chapter 3 Conditional Markers: Pragmatics; Chapter 4 Exclusivity and Conditional Marker Form I: Adversative Contexts; Chapter 5 Exclusivity and Conditional Marker Form II: Scalar Contexts; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
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Schwenter, Scott
