Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

By Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Construal and Perspectivization (2010, background): “Another type of construction with a similar function is conditionals; cf. Dancygier and Sweetser (1997) and especially Dancygier and Sweetser (2005).”
• The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets. (2013, unknown): “…use of the simple past to convey epistemic distance is closely related to several well-studied linguistic phenomena, including hypotheticals (see James 1982), counterfactuals (see Iatridou 2000), conditionals (see Dancygier & Sweetser 2005), and most broadly, the irrealis and subjunctive moods.”