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ZAS Papers in Linguistics

ISSN 1435-9588

1 paper in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2018

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Counteridenticals and dream reports

ZAS Papers in Linguistics 2018 Carina Kauf 2 citations

Counteridenticals are counterfactual conditional sentences whose antecedent clausescontain an identity statement, e.g. If I were you, I’d buy the blue dress. Here, we argue thatcounteridenticals are best analyzed along the lines of dream reports. After showing that counteridenticalsand dream reports exhibit striking grammatical and perceptual parallels, we suggestan analysis of...