33.707, Books: Connecting Conditionals: Reuneker

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Subject: 33.707, Books: Connecting Conditionals: Reuneker

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:34:48
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Connecting Conditionals: Reuneker

 


Title: Connecting Conditionals 
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Approach to Conditional Constructions in Dutch 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/connecting-conditionals 


Author: Alex Reuneker

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933950 Pages: 643 Price: Europe EURO 49


Abstract:

Conditionals, or ‘if-then sentences’, enable us to express our thoughts about
possible states of the world. They thus form a crucial ingredient of everyday
reasoning and argumentation. The main aim of this dissertation is to elucidate
which meanings are expressed by means of conditional constructions by focusing
on their different uses and grammatical features.

In the first part of this dissertation, an analysis of conditionals in terms
of implicatures of ‘unassertiveness’ and ‘connectedness’ is presented.
Insights from semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and neighbouring
fields are combined. In the second part, the analysis is tested on a corpus of
spoken and written Dutch. To investigate the relation between the meaning and
grammar of conditionals, several cluster analyses are presented. The results
show that grammatical features such as verb tense, modal marking, and
syntactic integration do not, or only weakly, license generalised implicatures
of unassertiveness and connectedness in Dutch conditionals. This result sheds
light on difficulties arising in applying general categories of conditionals
to language use data, and it suggests that the fundamentals of categorising
conditional constructions need revision.

This dissertation shows the benefits of combining semantic and pragmatic
analyses of conditionals. It provides an extensive discussion of
classifications of conditionals, an overview of the grammatical features of
Dutch conditionals, and it presents cluster analyses using state-of-the-art
machine-learning techniques. This study should therefore be of interest to
anyone concerned with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of conditionals,
and to anyone working on Dutch grammar, corpus linguistics, and the interface
between semantics and pragmatics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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