Free Choice Counterfactual Donkeys
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چکیده
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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Semantics
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006