Iffiness
How do ordinary indicative conditionals manage to convey conditional information, information about what might or must be if such-and-such is or turns out to be the case? An old school thesis is that they do this by expressing something iffy: ordinary indicatives express a two-place conditional oper...
Main Author: | Anthony S Gillies |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2010-02-01
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Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/109 |
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