The grammatical ingredients of counterfactuality

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-270

  Iatridou, Sabine ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect; Conditionals; Counterfactuals; Mood; Tense; Wishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244278625     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438900554352     Document Type: Article

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