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Publication details [#14196]

Horn, Laurence R. 2000. From if to iff: Conditional perfection as pragmatic strenthening. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (3) : 289–326.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional mood | implicature | inference

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article elaborates on the ongoing debate on the conditional perfection in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. The discussion deals with counterfactuals and other non-predictive conditionals and gives an overview of the implications for the theory of conversational implicature.