Counterfactuals, correlatives, and disjunction

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-244

  Alonso Ovalle, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative semantics; Disjunction; Minimal change semantics for conditionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350026268     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-009-9059-0     Document Type: Article

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