Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?

被引：3

作者：

van Rooij, Robert ^{[1
]}

Schulz, Katrin ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Amsterdam, Inst Log Language & Computat ILLC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

来源：

LINGUISTICS VANGUARD | 2022年 / 8卷

关键词：

causality; conditionals; relevance;

D O I：

10.1515/lingvan-2021-0030

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

In this paper we argue that the antecedent of a (non-analytic) conditional is causally relevant to the consequent, horizontal ellipsis at least if standard background conditions hold. Natural counterexamples to the causal relevance analysis are argued to be cases where the standardly assumed background condition(s) do not hold.

引用

页码：363 / 370

页数：8