conf unique 15 dec. Pr. Eve Sweetser: Mental Spaces in Grammar, Paris (rappel)

[Jean-Claude Bondol]

 De: Laure Sarda 


 Le CRISCO s'associe au LATTICE pour présenter conjointement

dans le cadre du séminaire "Des langues au langage : modèles et 
théories à l'épreuve des faits"
 
une conférence du Pr. Eve Sweetser


Mental Spaces in Grammar
Conditional Constructions

vendredi 15 décembre 2006 (11h-13h)
 
à l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris
  salle de conférence IV, bâtiment de chimie.


Eve Sweetser is a professor of linguistics at the University of 
California, Berkeley, and an important figure in the field of cognitive 
linguistics. Some of her more accessible work focuses on gesture, but 
her other research interests include historical linguistics, semantics, 
metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, and the Celtic 
language family.


  Abstract:
  Barbara Dancygier  & Eve Sweetser (2005) Mental Spaces in Grammar, 
Conditional Constructions, Series Title: Cambridge Studies in 
Linguistics, 108, 2005, Cambridge University Press.

  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 compositionality of 
constructional meaning, describing both the mental-space building 
processes underlying
  conditional thinking, and the form-meaning relationship involved in 
expressing conditionality. Using a broad range of attested English
  conditional constructions, the book examines inter-constructional 
relationships. Within the framework of Mental Spaces theory, shared
  parameters of meaning are shown to be relevant to conditional 
constructions generally, as well as to related temporal and causal 
constructions. This
  significant contribution to the field will be welcomed by a wide range 
of researchers in theoretical and cognitive linguistics.

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