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Publication details [#10471]
Auwera, Johan van der. 1986. Conditionals and speech acts. In Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Alice ter Meulen, Judy Snitzer Reilly and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. On conditionals. Cambridge University Press. pp. 197–214. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
The interaction of conditionals with assertions, questions and imperatives, aiming to determine how conditionals are understood. This involves the matter of their interpretation as threats and promises or as concessives, and of the interpretation of coordinate constructions as conditionals.