by Eve Sweetser · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521424424
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«From Etymology to Pragmatics» is a linguistics study by Eve Sweetser, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (186 pages, in English).
Eve Sweetser analyses the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. She argues that these ambiguities reflect human cognitive structure, with its metaphorical and cultural aspects. She also links this polysemy to pragmatic ambiguity and semantic change in Indo-European languages.
Volume 54 of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991.
Aimed at students and researchers in linguistics, semantics, and philosophy of language.
