16 Conditionals RAJESH BHATT AND ROUMYANA PANCHEVA

1 Introduction 2 Defining conditionals 2.1 What is a conditional? 2.2 The marking of conditionals 3 Structural issues 3.1 The position of merger of the if-clause 3.1.1 If-clauses as adverbial clauses 3.1.2 Height of attachment 3.1.3 A source for sentence-initial if-clauses 3.2 Clause-internal syntax of the if-clause 3.2.1 The location of if 3.2.2 The conditional–interrogative link 3.2.3 The absence of low construals 3.2.4 Conditional inversion 4 The conditional–interrogative link 4.1 Then as a correlative proform 4.1.1 The semantic contribution of then 4.1.2 The distribution of then 4.2 Structure of conditionals with then 4.2.1 If-clauses as definites 4.3 Some apparent problems for the conditional–correlative link 5 Factual and relevance conditionals 5.1 Relevance conditionals 5.2 Factual conditionals 5.3 Stacking if-clauses of different types 6 Other conditional structures 6.1 Adnominal conditionals 6.2 Reduced conditionals 6.3 Chinese bare conditionals 7 Conclusion