This study deals with the issue of mood choice in complement clauses French, which speakers may choose between indicative or subjunctive. We report on results two experiments using an elicitation task, we investigated how matrix verb, via its distributive patterns (i.e. verbs selecting only subjunctive vs. accepting either mood), tense and grammatical aspect influences clause. While role semant...

ii Acknowledgements iii List of Abbreviations iv Section 1: Introduction 1 Section 2: The Spanish Present Subjunctive 3 2.1. Concordantia Temporum 3 2.2. The Present Subjunctive in Argentinean Spanish 5 2.3. Previous Accounts of Violations of Concordantia Temporum 7 Section 3: Time and Language 14 3.1. Tensed and Tenseless Languages 14 3.2. Reichenbach‟s Theory of Tense 18 3.3. Hornstein‟s Neo-...

We present a logic for belief revision in which revision of a theory by a sentence is represented using a conditional connective. The conditional is not primitive, but rather defined using two unary modal operators. Our approach captures and extends the classic AGM model without relying on the Limit Assumption. Reasoning about counterfactual or hypothetical situations is also crucial for AI. Ex...

The logic of dominance arguments is analyzed using two different kinds of conditionals: indicative (epistemic) and subjunctive (counter-factual). It is shown that on the indicative interpretation an assumption of independence is needed for a dominance argument to go through. It is also shown that on the subjunctive interpretation no assumption of independence is needed once the standard premise...

When exploring online resources, users often make many separate retrievals – specifying in turn various parameter values to make up a request, and examining the corresponding results. Any interface that supports only one retrieval at a time, i.e., one set of parameter values and the corresponding results, places a heavy burden on a user who wants to compare available results, or simply to try a...

The authors investigated the relationship between reasoners' understanding of subjunctive conditionals (e.g., if p had happened, then q would have happened) and the inferences they were prepared to endorse. Reasoners who made a counterfactual interpretation of subjunctive statements (i.e., they judged the statement to imply that p and q did not happen) endorsed different inferences than those w...