Wishes before ifs: mapping “fake” past tense to counterfactuality in wishes and conditionals
Counterfactuals express alternatives that are contrary to the actual situation.In English, counterfactuality is conveyed through conditionals (“If pigs had wings, they could fly”) and wish-constructions (“I wish pigs hadwings”), where the past tense morpheme marks non-actuality rather than past temp...
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Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Language Development Research |
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| Online Access: | https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/559/ |