Conditional Truth and Future Reference
Conditional Truth and Future Reference
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条件真理和未来参考
DOI：
10.1093/jos/ffh025
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
Stefan Kaufmann
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作者：
Stefan Kaufmann
本文提出了一个组合模型理论的解释方式的指示性条件句的时间和模态表达式在其组成部分的决定和约束。其主要主张是，陈述性条件句的先行词和后件中的时态都以与孤立地解释相同的方式来解释。这是有争议的先行语的预测条件，如“如果他明天到达，她会离开”，其现在时往往被认为是不同的语义，从他们的独立的同行，如“他明天到达”。在本文中开发的统一的分析，观察到的差异对这些解释的时间和模态维度之间的相互作用。这一观点也揭示了指示性条件句的“非预测性”和“认知性”解读之间的关系。
This paper proposes a compositional model-theoretic account of the way the interpretation of indicative conditionals is determined and constrained by the temporal and modal expressions in their constituents. The main claim is that the tenses in both the antecedent and the consequent of an indicative conditional are interpreted in the same way as in isolation. This is controversial for the antecedents of predictive conditionals like ‘If he arrives tomorrow, she will leave’, whose Present tense is often claimed to differ semantically from that in their stand-alone counterparts, such as ‘He arrives tomorrow’. Under the unified analysis developed in this paper, the differences observed in pairs like these are explained by interactions between the temporal and modal dimensions of interpretation. This perspective also sheds new light on the relationship between ‘non-predictive’ and ‘epistemic’ readings of indicative conditionals.