a new look: The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality

Dahl, Östen

doi:10.1075/cilt.143.06dah

In:On Conditionals Again
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 143] 1997
► pp. 97–114

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The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality

a new look

Östen Dahl

Published online: 24 April 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.143.06dah

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