Kiki, Nikiforidou & Katis, Demetra (2000) “Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek” in Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam 1997 (eds.) Ad Foolen & Frederike van der Leek: 217-237. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin Publishing Company.

1. Introduction

Meaning is often a matter of construal. – 217

“A foundational claim of cognitive linguistics”, says Langacker (1990b: 5), “is that an expression’s meaning cannot be reduced to an objective characterization of the situation described: equally important for linguistic semantics is how the conceptualizer chooses to construe the situation and portray it for expressive purposes.” – 217

2. Conditional with ama: from simultaneity to speaker involvement

3. Ean conditionals: from concrete to discourse deixis

4. Conditionals with na: grounded conditionality

5. Discussions and conclusion

an important conclusion of this paper is that conditionals, besides expressing relations between premises and conclusions, are also, and perhaps more importantly, expressions of subjective beliefs and attitudes. – 232