Draft article on conditionals

I have a draft of my article on conditionals for the new semantics handbook edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, and Paul Portner. As you’ll see, I have kept the article at a fairly non-technical level while trying not to distort the results in the literature. There are plenty of references to the advanced research literature so that people can get the full and technical story if they wish. [My pipedream -- and the expectation of certain editor friends of mine -- is that I will teach both the informal stories told in this article and the technical implementations and arguments in a book on conditionals that I will be writing any time now.]

There is still time for edits (although the word limit has been reached so new material would have to go in through some exchange with material to be deleted), so I would really appreciate any comments that people might have. But time is of the essence, since the handbook is supposed to go to press very soon.

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One Response to Draft article on conditionals

  1. Despite the fact that they were not the main focus of your paper, I appreciated the reference to the biscuit and premise conditionals as I am looking at these with a view towards finding a home for them in rhetorical structure. If you know of anyone in the RST community already looking at them, please pass on the reference. Cheers!

    Leslie Barrett

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