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888 - Jingyi Chen / Anankastic conditionals are conditionals with harmonizing modals

Portrait of Jingyi Chen, PhD student in linguistics.

888 - Jingyi Chen / Anankastic conditionals are conditionals with harmonizing modals

Linguistics Monday, May 13, 2024 1:23 pm - 4:32 pm

Monday May 13, Jingyi Chen defends her 888 paper, supervised by Valentine - with a committee also including Alexander, Paolo and Fabrizio - on a new understanding of anankastic conditionals, such as "If you want to advance to candidacy, you have to defend your 888," where the attitude verb in the antecedent seems to be logically misplaced. The thesis of the paper is in its title: Anankastic conditionals are conditionals with harmonizing modals. For those who do want to advance to candidacy, their goals underwrite the necessity of advancing to candidacy, and this mode of necessity harmonizes with that of the consequent. Come to the defense to see why this explains the puzzle!

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Monday May 13, Jingyi Chen defends her 888 paper, supervised by Valentine - with a committee also including Alexander, Paolo and Fabrizio - on a new understanding of anankastic conditionals, such as "If you want to advance to candidacy, you have to defend your 888," where the attitude verb in the antecedent seems to be logically misplaced. The thesis of the paper is in its title: Anankastic conditionals are conditionals with harmonizing modals. For those who do want to advance to candidacy, their goals underwrite the necessity of advancing to candidacy, and this mode of necessity harmonizes with that of the consequent. Come to the defense to see why this explains the puzzle!