Conditionals

and, Rajesh Bhatt; Pancheva, Roumyana

doi:10.1002/9780470996591.ch16

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“…In line with much syntactic and semantic work on conditionals (von Fintel, 1994;Izvorski, 1996;Bhatt and Pancheva, 2006;Schlenker, 2004), we will assume that conditionals are correlative constructions.…”

Section: Conditionals As Correlativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counterfactuals, correlatives, and disjunction

Alonso-Ovalle

2009

Linguist and Philos

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Abstract. The natural interpretation of counterfactuals with disjunctive antecedents involves selecting from each of the disjuncts the worlds that come closest to the world of evaluation. It has been long noticed that capturing this interpretation poses a problem for a minimal change semantics for counterfactuals, because selecting the closest worlds from each disjunct requires accessing the denotation of the disjuncts from the denotation of the disjunctive antecedent, which the standard boolean analysis of or does not allow (Creary and Hill 1975, Nute 1975, Fine 1977, Ellis et al. 1977).This paper argues that the failure to capture the natural interpretation of disjunctive counterfactuals provides no reason to abandon a minimal change semantics. It shows that the natural interpretation of disjunctive counterfactuals is expected once we refine our assumptions about the semantics of or and the logical form of conditionals, and (i) we assume

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Section: Conditionals As Correlativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counterfactuals, correlatives, and disjunction

Alonso-Ovalle

2009

Linguist and Philos

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“…It has often been observed that there is a strong syntactic similarity between ICs (and subjunctive conditionals) and correlative constructions, which 'involve a free relative clause adjoined to the matrix clause and co-indexed with a proform inside it' (Bhatt and Pancheva 2001). Bittner (2001), for instance, cites the following example from Warlpiri 4 , which she credits to Hale (1976).…”

Section: Conditionals and Topicalitymentioning

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“…e.g. Iatridou 1994, Izvorski 1996, Bhatt and Pancheva 2001. We assume it to trigger lambda-abstraction over possible worlds in exactly the same way in which d-pronouns like der trigger lambda-abstraction over individuals in the case of GLD.…”

Section: A Unified Analysis Of Indicative and Biscuit Conditionals Asmentioning

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A Unified Analysis of Indicative and Biscuit Conditionals as Topics

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Hinterwimmer

2008

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“…The literature often treats conditional antecedents (syntactically) as free relatives that adjoin to the matrix clause (see Bhatt & Pancheva 2006 for the syntax of conditionals), i.e., as correlatives, and in this tradition then is the correlative proform. The question arises as to why then is possible in some conditionals but not in others.…”

Section: Then In Conditionalsmentioning

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The grammar of discourse: The case of then

Biezma

2015

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This paper presents an analysis of then that appeals to discourse structure. I argue that then does not make any truth-conditional contribution but rather coordinates an anaphoric relation between consecutive discourse-moves. The meaning contribution of then is captured in terms of felicity conditions: then requires that two propositions enter into a 'causal explanatory claim'-relation in which one (the antecedent) provides the 'reasons' for the other (the consequent). This proposal targets then within conditionals and across discourse and considers discourse structure as a key factor in explaining its behavior.

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Conditionals

Cited by 163 publications

References 27 publications

Counterfactuals, correlatives, and disjunction

Counterfactuals, correlatives, and disjunction

A Unified Analysis of Indicative and Biscuit Conditionals as Topics

The grammar of discourse: The case of then

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