Marking the counterfactual: ERP evidence for pragmatic processing of German subjunctives

Marking the counterfactual: ERP evidence for pragmatic processing of German subjunctives

Counterfactual conditionals are frequently used in language to express potentially valid reasoning from factually false suppositions. Counterfactuals provide two pieces of information: their literal meaning expresses a suppositional dependency between an antecedent (If the dice had been rigged ...)...

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Main Authors: Eugenia eKulakova, Dominik eFreunberger, Dietmar eRoehm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
pragmatics
EEG/ERP
conditionals
counterfactuals
linguistic mood
subjunctive
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00548/full

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