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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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A Probabilistic Truth-Conditional Semantics for Indicative Conditionals

Studia Semiotyczne, 2022
In my article, I present a new version of a probabilistic truth prescribing semantics for natural language indicative conditionals. The proposed truth conditions can be paraphrased as follows: an indicative conditional is true if the corresponding ...
Michał Sikorski
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Discriminant features and temporal structure of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
To fully define the grammar of American Sign Language (ASL), a linguistic model of its nonmanuals needs to be constructed. While significant progress has been made to understand the features defining ASL manuals, after years of research, much still needs
C Fabian Benitez-Quiroz, Kadir Gökgöz, Ronnie B Wilbur, Aleix M Martinez   +3 more
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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A note on Mcgee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
In this article I will review McGee's famous counterexample to Modus Ponens and I will argue that it is not a real counterexample. I will claim that the problem lies in an infelicitous assertion of the second premise.
Mariela Rubin
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Pragmática, modo y condicionales

Crítica, 2018
In contrast with the logico-semantical analyses of conditional (Stalnaker, 1968; Lewis, 1973; Pollock, 1976), it is claimed in this paper that it is not possible to give a sound interpretation to such sentential structures if pragmatic factors are not ...
Eduardo Bustos Guadaño
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Iffiness

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
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?
Anthony S Gillies
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Modus po verbech opinandi v (před)klasické francouzštině: kvantitativní analýza | Mood in subordinate clauses after verba opinandi in (pre-)classical French: A quantitive analysis [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2018
The paper deals with the development in the usage of verbal moods following verba opinandi in preclassical and classical French. An evident change in mood usage following these verbs had taken place in the 17th century, namely a decline of the ...
Karolína Lipská
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Conditional indicators

Quaestiones Mathematicae
In this paper, we introduce a large class of (so-called) conditional indicators, on a complete probability space with respect to a sub $σ$-algebra. A conditional indicator is a positive mapping, which is not necessary linear, but may share common features with the conditional expectation, such as the tower property or the projection property.
Cherif, Dorsaf, Lepinette, Emmanuel
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Reconditioning the conditional [Recondicionando o condicional]

Princípios, 2016
Many authors have hoped to understand the indicative conditional construction in everyday language by means of what are usually called conditional probabilities. Other authors have hoped to make sense of conditional probabilities in terms of the absolute
David Miller
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