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Martin, John N. 1975. Karttunen on possibility. Linguistic Inquiry 6 (2) : 339–341.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Finnish
Person as a subject

Annotation

With reference to L. Karttunen (1971: 'Some observations on factivity'), M. argues that the inference from 'possible A' to B, if A presupposes B, is just like that from A to B when A presupposes B, and that this can be generalized to other modal contexts.