Article Dans Une Revue Theoretical Linguistics Année : 2021

Universal parameters yielding counterfactuals

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This paper presents a set of non-language-specific principles yielding counterfactual thinking that has been previously outlined by psychologists. I argue that the application of these regularities to if-clauses narrows a specific type of constructions-i.e., heuristic counterfactualswhose semantic properties remain static across languages, resulting in the following description: [+] Restrictedness, [-] Reality status, [-] Probability, and [-] Counterfactual factuality.

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halshs-03426438 , version 1 (12-11-2021)

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Isabel Repiso. Universal parameters yielding counterfactuals. Theoretical Linguistics, 2021, 47 (3-4), pp.267-276. ⟨10.1515/tl-2021-2024⟩. ⟨halshs-03426438⟩
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