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…) and...

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Main Authors: Kulakova, Eugenia, Freunberger, Dominik, Roehm, Dietmar
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110946/