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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452906103321

Autore

Ippolito Michela <1970->

Titolo

Subjunctive conditionals : a linguistic analysis / / Michela Ippolito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-262-31488-6

0-262-31487-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 65

Disciplina

415/.6

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Conditionals

Grammar, Comparative and general - Subjunctive

Modality (Linguistics)

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Temporal Mismatches in Subjunctive Conditionals; 3 A Compositional Analysis; 4 Presuppositions; 5 An Asymmetry between the Past and the Future; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses.