According to the standard semantic framework, the common ground is the set of propositions that participants in a conversation mutually assume to be taken for granted (Stalnaker, 2002). In this view, ...
Abstract: By analogy with the movement analysis of temporal clauses, some authors have proposed that conditional clauses be derived by leftward operator movement (Bhatt and Pancheva 2002, 2006, ...
Conditional sentences express a connection between two actions or states. One thing happens because of another. These connections can be general, specific, likely, unlikely, real or imagined. Although ...