Indicatives, concessives, and evidential support

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 480-499

  Douven, Igor ^a   Verbrugge, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Concessive conditionals; Evidential support; Indicative conditionals; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867504705     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2012.716009     Document Type: Article

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