caa a22 4500 463173775 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6 Arregui Ana Linguistics Department, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier Ave. East, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut When aspect matters: the case of would -conditionals [Elektronische Daten] [Ana Arregui] Differences in the interpretation of would-conditionals with simple (perfective) and perfect antecedent clauses are marked enough to discourage a unified view. However, this paper presents a unified, Lewis-Stalnaker style semantics for the modal in such constructions. Differences in the interpretation of the conditionals are derived from the interaction between the interpretation of different types of aspect and the modal. The paper makes a distinction between perfective and perfect aspect in terms of whether they make reference to or quantify over Lewis-style events. In making reference to Lewis-events, perfective aspect is shown to be incompatible with counterfactual would-conditionals. The so-called ‘epistemic flavor' of perfective conditionals about the future is derived from the use of diagonalization as an interpretive strategy called upon to resolve reference. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Conditionals nationallicence Counterfactuals nationallicence Tense nationallicence Aspect nationallicence Modality nationallicence Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2007-09-01), 221-264 0925-854X 15:3<221 2007 15 11050 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Arregui Ana Linguistics Department, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier Ave. East, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2007-09-01), 221-264 0925-854X 15:3<221 2007 15 11050 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer