Operators or restrictors? A reply to Gillies
According to operator theories, "if" denotes a two-place operator. According to restrictor theories, "if" doesn't contribute an operator of its own but instead merely restricts the domain of some co-occurring quantifier. The standard arguments (Lewis 1975, Kratzer 1986) for...
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Linguistic Society of America
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/1564 |