From Etymology to Pragmatics

Eve (University of California, Berkeley) Sweetser

Cambridge University Press, 1991

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A new 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, the author's argument shows that they can be analyzed readily and systematically.

ISBN-13
9780521424424
ISBN-10
0521424429
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
Publication date
1991-07-26
Pages
188
Dimensions
229x154x12
Weight
28