Subjunctive conditionals a linguistic analysis
Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent cla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2013
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| Series: | Linguistic inquiry monographs
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| Summary: | Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 159 pages |
| ISBN: | 0262314878 9781299848474 1299848478 9781461943273 1461943272 9780262314879 |