Coordinating If s
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Khoo, Justin
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<jats:p>Accounting for the behavior of conjoined and disjoined if-clauses is not easy for standard theories of conditionals that treat if as either an operator or restrictor. In this paper, I discuss four observations about coordinated if-clauses, and motivate a semantics for conditionals that reorients the compositional structure of the restrictor theory. On my proposal, if-clauses provide restrictions on modal domains, but they do so by way of a higher type intermediary—a set of propositions—that is collapsed by the modal. I argue that combining this view with an independently plausible type-shifting operation applied to or and and predicts the range of data we find for conditionals with coordinated if-clauses.</jats:p>
Date issued
2021Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and PhilosophyJournal
Journal of Semantics
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Khoo, Justin. 2021. "Coordinating If s." Journal of Semantics, 38 (2).
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