Abstract
This paper aims to provide a 'real aspect' approach of the 'fake' imperfective in subjunctive conditionals and a new account of the (non)-cancellability of the counterfactual inference in SCs, largely based on Ippolito 2013. It is argued that PAST and PRES above MODAL in conditionals compete the same way as in non-modal stative sentences, see Altshuler and Schwarzschild 2012. On this view, the counterfactual inference of SCs, when cancellable, is nothing else than the cessation implicature routinely triggered by past stative sentences.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 266-275 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2015 - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 16 Dec 2015 → 18 Dec 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Amsterdam |
| Period | 16/12/15 → 18/12/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2015. All rights reserved.
Funding
∗I would like to thank Daniel Altshuler, Hamida Demirdache, Christopher Piñón and Gerhard Schaden for valuable discussions andfeedback. Usualdisclaimersapply. ThisworkispartoftheprojectB5oftheCollaborativeResearchCenter732ofthe University of Stuttgart, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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| the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |