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If-conditional sentences across Asian Englishes
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 This study explored the syntactic and semantic analysis of if-conditional sentences in the International Corpus of English (ICE). Using the three corpora of Asian varieties of English such as ICE-PHI (PhilE), ICE-HK (HKE), and ICE-SING (SingE) that have
Ariel Robert Ponce, Shirley N. Dita
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, 2018 Compare the following conditionals: 'If John is not in Paris, he is in France' versus 'If John is in France, he is not in Paris.' The second sounds entirely natural, whereas the first sounds quite strange.
Mandelkern, Matthew, Romoli, Jacopo
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, 2019 Bradley offers a quick and convincing argument that no Boolean semantic theory for conditionals can validate a very natural principle concerning the relationship between credences and conditionals.
Khoo, Justin, Mandelkern, Matthew
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Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2004 This paper investigates a generalization of the notion of comonotonicity by introducing and exploring the concept of conditional comonotonicity. The authors characterize this notion and show by examples that conditional comonotonicity is the natural extension of comonotonicity to dynamic settings.
Napp, Clotilde, Jouini, Elyès
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Conversation and conditionals [PDF]
, 2008 I outline and motivate a way of implementing a closest world theory of indicatives, appealing to Stalnaker’s framework of open conversational possibilities.
Williams, J.R.G.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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Semantic Classification of Conditional Construction in Persian Language [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 Conditional constructions consist of two clauses. The existence or non-existence of a causal relationship between these two clauses causes the conditional construction to be divided into two groups: consequential and non- consequential conditionals.
Azadeh Mirzaei
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Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery [PDF]
, 2019 ‘If you want to go to Harlem, you have to take the A train’ doesn’t look special. Yet a compositional account of its meaning, and the meaning of anankastic conditionals more generally, has proven an enigma.
Phillips-Brown, Milo
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The Logic of Conditional Belief [PDF]
, 2020 The logic of indicative conditionals remains the topic of deep and intractable philosophical disagreement. I show that two influential epistemic norms—the Lockean theory of belief and the Ramsey test for conditional belief—are jointly sufficient to ...
Eva, Benjamin
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