Free choice counterfactual donkeys  

Oleh:

Rooij, Robert Van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 23 no. 4 (Dec. 2006), page 383–402.
Topik: Counterfactual; Donkey Sentences
Fulltext: vol 23, no 4, p 383-402.pdf (165.32KB)

Isi artikel

We propose a straightforward analysis of counterfactual donkey sentences, by combining the Lewis/Stalnaker analysis of counterfactuals with standard dynamic semantics. The main idea is to define a similarity relation between world-assignment pairs such that two such pairs are unconnected if their assignments differ. We show that with the help of this ordering relation we can also account for a number of related problems involving disjunctions and the use of any in counterfactuals and permission sentences.

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