From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture by Eve Sweetser

From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture

Eve Sweetser

188 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced

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This book offers 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, Eve Sweetse...

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