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- Title
No conditionalization without restriction.
- Authors
Hinterwimmer, Stefan
- Abstract
Now, adding that information is clearly something different than simply adding the content of the I if i -clause to the topic features of the main clause and it is unclear to me from what principles or assumptions that specific way of combining the content of the I if i -clause with the content of the main clause follows. We argue in that paper that in indicative as well as subjunctive conditionals with the pro-form I then i in the main clause, the maximal plurality of possible worlds denoted by the respective I if i -clause is the aboutness topic (in the sense of [6]) of the sentence. In "Another way to look at counterfactuals (AWLC)", Wolfgang Klein first points out some problems with analyses of counterfactual conditionals along the lines of [8] and [5] and then suggests an alternative which he claims to differ substantially from existing analyses while being in accordance with "many linguistic facts above and beyond counterfactuality" (AWLC: 192). While indicative conditionals are not the main focus of AWLC, it is clear that Klein's analysis is intended to account for conditionals in general, with the difference between indicative and subjunctive conditionals being due to the contribution of the respective verbal mood markers exclusively.
- Subjects
COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); DISLOCATION structure; INTUITION; FOLIAR diagnosis; THESIS statements (Rhetoric)
- Publication
Theoretical Linguistics, 2021, Vol 47, Issue 3/4, p251
- ISSN
0301-4428
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/tl-2021-2022