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We can spell out the truth-conditions in Lewis, Stalnaker or Klein style, without, however, fully comprehending the linguistic details of the basic constructions. In the philosophical tradition “since antiquity”, to quote Wolfgang Klein, there is a tendency to shy away from the unexpected morphology in ordinary counterfactuals and instead construct bizarre sentences where our intuitions about truthconditions break down:
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Theoretical Linguistics is an open peer review journal. Each issue contains one long target article about a topic of general linguistic interest, together with several shorter reactions, comments and reflections on it. With this format, the journal aims to stimulate discussion in linguistics and adjacent fields of study, in particular across schools of different theoretical orientations.
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