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  1. (, Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 18)
    Butler, Alastair (Ed.)
    This study explores the felicity condition of Japanese nara-conditionals. Building on the observation that nara-conditionals require the antecedent to express information that the speaker has recently acquired (Akatsuka 1985), I argue that nara-conditionals require that the antecedent be in some possible future context set provided by the actual context. I implement the idea in Farkas and Bruce’s (2010) Table model, and explore the consequence of the proposed account regarding the interaction between nara-conditionals and (i) evidentiality and (ii) directive speech acts. 
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