A usage-based approach to counterfactuality: optionality of the apodosis

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1515/tl-2021-2025
A. Van linden
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Wolfgang Klein’s alternative analysis of counterfactuals is indeed much closer to the linguistic facts of English and related languages than what has been proposed within the philosophical tradition so far. This response to his article contends that Klein’s fresh look at counterfactuality paves the way for a pragmatic, usage-based approach to counterfactuals, which calls for a more varied analysis of the illocutionary force of counterfactual declarative sentences. As a second point, while Klein proposes that “counterfactuals do not require an ifclause” (p. 223), I will discuss authentic language data featuring independent counterfactual if-clauses, among others from English, and build the case that the reverse also holds, viz. that counterfactual conditionals do not require a main clause. The problem these data seem to pose to Klein’s account, however, is only an apparent one. Above all, they will be shown to highlight in turn the illocutionary versatility of declarative counterfactuals.
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一种基于用法的反事实方法:apodosis的选择性
沃尔夫冈·克莱因对反事实的另一种分析确实比迄今为止在哲学传统中提出的更接近于英语和相关语言的语言事实。对他的文章的回应认为,克莱因对反事实的新看法为一种实用的、基于用法的反事实方法铺平了道路,这种方法要求对反事实陈述句的非言力进行更多样化的分析。作为第二点,虽然Klein提出“反事实不需要if子句”(第223页),但我将讨论具有独立反事实if子句的真实语言数据,以及其他来自英语的数据,并构建反过来也成立的情况,即反事实条件句不需要主子句。然而,这些数据似乎给克莱因的描述带来的问题,只是一个表面上的问题。最重要的是,它们将依次突出陈述性反事实的言外通用性。
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期刊介绍: 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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