“If not for ” Counterfactuals: Negating Causality in Natural Language∗

Using new data from a counterfactual construction in English that has not yet been treated in the literature, this paper presents new arguments for the picture painted by Schulz (2007), where counterfactual antecedents are ambiguous between requiring global and local revision in models enriched with causal relations. Specifically, we investigate the counterfactual construction in (1) (henceforth N