The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality

By Sabine Iatridou. Linguistic Inquiry, 2000

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0 Annotation Manual (2007, background): “The tag “unreal present” represents the semantics of conditional relations also known in the lingustic literature as present counterfactuals (Iatridou, 2000).”
COMPETENCE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NATIVE AND NEAR-NATIVE SPEAKERS (2003, background): “As Iatridou (2000) has noted, in Romance and many languages counterfactuals and genericity are expressed with imperfect morphology, whereas in English they are expressed by the simple past-tense form. The relationship between genericity and aspect has already been noted by Jackendoff (1972) and also”
The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets. (2013, unknown): “Iatridou (2000) notes that this use of the past tense to convey distance from reality occurs in both wishes (like above) and also in if-clauses: “If I had a car (I would give you a ride)”, “If I was rich...”, “If he ran the school...”.”
Modals as distributive indefinites (2008, background): “In English and some other languages, explicit distinctions are encoded between past counterfactuals (as in (60)), what Iatridou (2000) has called “future less vivid” conditionals (as in (61)), and Iatridou’s “future neutral vivid” conditionals (as in (62)).”
Time and Modality (2008, background): “Lecarme proposes that the common abstract feature underlying the different uses of nominal pasts is a more primitive, domain-general exclusion/dissociation feature (Iatridou, 2000).”
When aspect matters: the case of would-conditionals (2007, background): “The relevance of lexical aspect has been addressed, amongst others, by Iatridou (2000) , Condoravdi (2002), and Gennari (2003).”
The Lazy Frenchman’s Approach to the Subjunctive (2005, background): “(iii) It was also suggested -somewhat less systematically- that the semantics of mood could be developed by analogy with the semantics of tense (Iatridou 2000), and that the resulting theory could explain certain systematic syncretisms between tense and mood.”
Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals (2011, background): “I will not discuss here existing accounts of that implicature, which can be found in Iatridou 2000 and Ippolito 2003, but will shortly offer my own.”