Conditional independence and biscuit conditional questions in Dynamic Semantics  

Oleh:

Sano, Katsuhiko ; Hara, Yurie

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at New York University, May 30th - June 1st, 2014, page 84-101.
Topik: biscuit conditionals; conditional independence; dynamic semantics; questions
Fulltext: 6. 2417-2525-1-PB.pdf (995.79KB)

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Biscuit conditionals such as If you are thirsty, there’s beer in the fridge are felt to be different from canonical conditionals If it’s raining, the fireworks will be cancelled in that the consequent seems to be entailed regardless of the truth/falsity of the antecedent. Franke (2009) argues that the “feeling of the consequent entailment” in biscuit conditionals is due to the conditional independence between the antecedent and consequent; thus a uniform semantics for canonical and biscuit conditionals can be maintained. A question arises as to whether it is possible to derive the same consequent entailment in the framework of dynamic semantics. Furthermore, there are some instances of biscuit conditional questions such as If I get thirsty, is there anything in the fridge? This paper provides a dynamic and non-symmetric version of the independence condition, a d-independence condition which correctly derives the consequent entailment in both declaratives and interrogatives.

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