The nature and origins of counterfactuality in simple clauses. Cross-linguistic evidence

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1865-1895

  Van linden, An ^b   Verstraete, Jean Christophe ^a,b  

^a FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Counterfactuality; Implicatures; Modality; Tense

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049105619     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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