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Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I: The core of conditionals
Conditionals and counterfactuals: conceptual primitives and linguistic universals15 Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality61 The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality: a new look97 Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals115 Part II: Single conditional constructions
Unless and but conditionals: a historical perspective145 Conditional perfection169 Generics and habituals191 Conditionals and restrictives on generics223 Part III: Basic dimensions of conditionality
Conditionality as cognitive distance243 Conceptualization: conditionals as an instance of figure/ground alignment273 Conditionals and polarity289 Conditionality in dimensional perspective307 Part IV: Conditionals in use
Negative conditionality, subjectification, and conditional reasoning323 The emergence of conditionals in child language: are they really so late?355 Speaking conditionally: some contexts for if-clauses in conversation387 Subject Index415
