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)

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Although their ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs shows how they can be readil...

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