Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Aim and scope of the work
1.2. The structure of the book
1.3. Terminological preliminaries
1.4. Symbols and conventions
1.5. The illustrative material
Chapter 2: Conditional connecting devices
2.1. If
2.2. Connectors expressing a necessary condition
2.3. Unless
2.4. In case
2.5. Lest
2.6. Even if and only if
2.7. Whether...or
2.8. Supposing, assuming, etc
2.9. Zero-conjunction plus inversion
2.10. Comparative conditionals
2.11. Other clauses with a conditional connotation
2.12. Conclusion
Chapter 3: Some preliminary terminology
3.1. โSubordinateโ clauses
3.2. โFully integratedโ clauses
3.3. Restrictive postscript-P conditionals
3.4. Actualization conditionals
3.5. โ(Non)assertoricโ vs โ(non)assertiveโ clauses
3.6. Inferential conditionals
3.7. Implicative conditionals
3.8. Case-specifying-P conditionals
3.9. Set-identifying P-clauses
3.10. Conditionals and possible worlds
3.11. Irrealis, nonfactual, counterfactual and imaginary P-clauses
3.12. Pseudo-Q conditionals
3.13. โDenied conditionalsโ vs โconditioned denialsโ
3.14. Specificational (focusing) conditional structures
3.15. The three canonical tense patterns of conditionals
3.16. Conclusion
Chapter 4: The possible-world typology of conditionals
4.1. Factual-P conditionals
4.2. Theoretical-world conditionals
4.3. Summary
Chapter 5: The use of tenses in possible-world conditionals
5.1. The tense model
5.2. The use of tenses in factual-P conditionals
5.3. The use of tenses in neutral-P conditionals
5.4. The use of tenses in closed-P conditionals
5.5. The use of tenses in open-P conditionals
5.6. The use of tenses in tentative-P conditionals
5.7. The use of tenses in counterfactual-P conditionals
5.8. Conclusion
Chapter 6: Modalized case-specifying conditionals
6.1. The subjunctive
6.2. Modal auxiliaries in the Q-clause
6.3. Ordinary modal auxiliaries in the P-clause
6.4. The use of special-P modals in P-clauses
6.5. Conclusion
Chapter 7: The three canonical tense patterns
7.1. Canonical pattern 1 conditionals
7.2. Canonical pattern 2 conditionals
7.3. Canonical pattern 3 conditionals
7.4. Conclusion
Chapter 8: The relation between the theoretical world and the actual world
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Epistemic modalizers
8.3. The importance of the relation between the theoretical world and the actual world
8.4. Nonassertoric interrogative Q-clauses
8.5. Conclusion
Chapter 9: A typology of case-specifying P-clauses
9.1. Actualization conditionals
9.2. Inferential conditionals
9.3. Purely case-specifying-P conditionals
9.4. Conclusion
Chapter 10: Rhetorical conditionals
10.1. Utterance conditionals
10.2. Comparing conditionals
10.3. Commenting-P conditionals
10.4. Pseudo-implicative conditionals
10.5. Pleonastic conditionals
10.6. Conclusion
Chapter 11: Syntactically marked conditional structures
11.1. Postscript-P conditionals
11.2. Conditional anacolutha
11.3. Nominal-Q conditionals
11.4. Displaced-P conditionals
11.5. Stacked-P conditionals
11.6. Conditionals with coordinated P-clauses or Q-clauses
11.7. Syntactically incomplete conditionals
11.8. Conditionals with a reduced P-clause or Q-clause
11.9. Implicit P-conditionals
11.10. Implicit-Q conditionals
11.11. Semi-nominal-P conditionals
11.12. Split conditionals
11.13. Paratactic conditionals
11.14. Specificational (focusing) conditional structures
11.15. Conclusion
Chapter 12: Sufficient and/or necessary conditions
12.1. Preliminaries
12.2. (In)dispensable P-clauses
12.3. Utterance-conditionals
12.4. A/T-conditions
12.5. Summary
Chapter 13: Uses and interpretations of unless
13.1. Syntactically integrated nonirrealis unless-clauses
13.2. Syntactically nonintegrated nonirrealis unless-clauses
13.3. Unless in irrealis conditionals
13.4. Summary
Chapter 14: The meanings and uses of even if
14.1. The meaning of even if in implicative conditionals
14.2. Nonimplicative even if-conditionals
14.3. Conclusion
Glossary
References
Authorโs index
Subject index
