The role of the Imperfect in Romance Counterfactuals
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چکیده
The Imperfect in Romance is used in an array of constructions: progressives, habituals, generics and counterfactual conditionals. The first three all share hallmarks of the Romance Imperfect: they describe something ongoing, in the past, and which requires contextual framing. Counterfactual uses, however, do not, and thus present an important challenge for a unified semantics of the Imperfect. In this paper, we try to explain the presence of the Imperfect in counterfactuals. We take counterfactuals to involve both a Future and an Imperfect (Iatridou 2000), but with the modal contribution of the latter be neutralized, such that counterfactuals amount to future conditionals. The Imperfect contribute presuppositions of framing and anteriority, which lead to counterfactuality.
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