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Imperatives in conditional conjunction ∗
This paper provides evidence for an ambiguity of bare VPs in the English conditional conjunction construction. This ambiguity, undetected by previous researchers, provides a key to the development of a compositional semantic analysis of conditional conjunction with imperative first conjuncts. The analysis combines existing semantic theories of imperatives, the future tense, modal subordination,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2177-7160,1678-0531
DOI: 10.20396/liames.v16i2.8646353