Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue here that these views give an unsatisfactory...
Main Author: | John Mackay |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2015-09-01
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Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/3011 |
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