2019
DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.27.2.1051-1099
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The relevance of future vs. non-future languages for the understanding of the role of tense in counterfactuals sentences / A relevância de línguas do sistema futuro vs. não-futuro para se entender o papel do tempo gramatical em sentenças contrafactuais

Abstract: A sentence is counterfactual when it implicates that the proposition it denotes is false (Iatridou, 2000). It has been noted that the past tense behaves non-canonically in counterfactual constructions in several unrelated languages, since it does not seem to convey pastness. A similar behavior is found in Karitiana, a Tupian language that belongs to the future vs. non-future system. It is the non-future that is used non-canonically in counterfactuals in Karitiana. Some authors posit that the past tense has a m… Show more

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