Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions

1. Conditional constructions, mental spaces and semantic compositionality 2. Prediction, alternativity and epistemic stance 3. Tense, epistemic distance and embedded spaces 4. Future and present forms in conditional constructions 5. Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains 6. Then and even if: mental-space deixis and referential uniqueness 7. Clause order and space building: if, because, unless and except if 8. Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only 9. Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning 10. The door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building References Indexes.

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