Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking

Abstract The morphological marking that distinguishes conditionals that are called “counterfactual” from those that are not, can also be found in other modal constructions, such as in the expression of wishes and oughts. We propose to call it “X-marking”. In this article, we lay out des...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: von Fintel, Kai, Iatridou, Sabine
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151766