Introduction -- Temporal Mismatches in Subjunctive Conditionals -- A Compositional Analysis -- Presuppositions -- An Asymmetry between the Past and the Future -- Conclusion
Summary
The author proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses
