TY - JOUR AU - Bledin, Justin AU - Srinivas, Sadhwi PY - 2019/07/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - As ifs JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 23 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.509 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/509 SP - 163-180 AB - <p>We provide an event semantic analysis of <em>as if-</em>phrases in manner reports and other modification uses on which these adjuncts contribute <em>hypothetical comparative </em>properties of eventualities. When combined with the dynamic verb <em>dance</em>, for instance, an <em>as if</em>-phrase expresses that the reported dancing event resembles in some relevant respect its counterparts in the most normal worlds described by the clause embedded under <em>as </em><em>if</em>. Towards the end of the paper, we extend our analysis to <em>as if-</em>complements of copy raising verbs in perceptual resemblance reports.</p> ER -