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V. H. Dudman Grammatical proposals of mine for conditionals have been challenged by Stephen Barker (1996). I thank him, both for his critical attention and because, in the confrontation, I seem to have devised an astonishingly swift demonstration that conditionals can have neither ‘antecedents’ nor ‘conse- quents’ (§8). Particularized to a single example, our bone of contention is how the italicized string is to be parsed when (A) occurs under its conditional inter- pretation m : (A) If she had been at the garden party, Grannie would have been drunk. Barker, who calls it a C-string, has it encoding its own message (215), half the doctrine I am bursting to refute. Whereas I maintain that this string is merely an integral part of a subordinate clause – more particularly a condi- tional clause – ‘If she had been at the garden party’, which works as a unit encoding an informational factor c which neither is nor incorporates a message. I call c a complication. Barker’s wider analysis has conditionals outwardly binary, with the conditional clause encoding something external to what the rest of the sentence encodes (215), and this, I shall argue, is obviously the correct appreciation. Having hitherto
Analysis – Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 1, 1998
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