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Journal of Semantics Advance Access originally published online on June 2, 2009
Journal of Semantics 2009 26(3):317-328; doi:10.1093/jos/ffp005
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Counterfactual Donkey Sentences: A Response to Robert van Rooij

Yingying Wang

Sun Yat-sen University and University of Amsterdam

Correspondence: YINGYING WANT, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 Xingangxi Rd, Guangzhou 510275, China, e-mail: yingyingzsu{at}yahoo.com.cn


  Abstract

Robert van Rooij (2006) proposed an analysis of counterfactual donkey sentences by combining the Stalnaker–Lewis analysis of counterfactuals with standard dynamic semantics. This paper points out some problems with van Rooij's treatment of counterfactual sentences in the language of first-order logic and provides a new interpretation using dynamic semantics.

Received for publication 9 July 2008. Revision received 7 January 2009. Accepted for publication 8 March 2009.


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