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Publication details [#52980]

Canegem-Ardijns, Ingrid Van. 2010. The indefeasibility of the inference that if not-A, then not-C. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1) : 1–15.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional mood | conditional utterance | inference | pragmatic theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study argues that the indefeasibility of the "if not-A, then not-C" inference in conditional perfection (CP) with particular conditional utterance types, can further be explained in terms of the pragmatic principle by which it is adopted.