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Douven, Igor and Karolina Krzyżanowska. 2018. Missing-link conditionals: pragmatically infelicitous or semantically defective? Intercultural Pragmatics 15 (2) : 191–212.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper reveals the findings of an empirical inquiry that explored whether people’s sensibility to false implicatures is linked with how they are inclined to assess missing-link conditionals with true clauses. These findings elucidate the issue of whether missing-link conditionals are best viewed as pragmatically unfortunate or rather as semantically faulty.