Justifying tense and mood morphology in counterfactuals

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1515/tl-2021-2021

A. Grønn

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Abstract

We can spell out the truth-conditions in Lewis, Stalnaker or Klein style, without, however, fully comprehending the linguistic details of the basic constructions. In the philosophical tradition “since antiquity”, to quote Wolfgang Klein, there is a tendency to shy away from the unexpected morphology in ordinary counterfactuals and instead construct bizarre sentences where our intuitions about truthconditions break down:

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反事实中时态和语气形态的辨证

然而，我们可以用Lewis、Stalnaker或Klein的风格来阐述真理条件，而不必完全理解基本结构的语言细节。引用沃尔夫冈·克莱因(Wolfgang Klein)的话说，在“自古以来”的哲学传统中，有一种倾向是回避普通反事实中意想不到的形态，而是构建奇怪的句子，让我们对真理条件的直觉崩溃:

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