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Publication details [#25540]
Mazzoleni, Marco. 1994. The pragmantax of some Italian conditionals. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (2) : 123–140. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that four types of Italian 'pragmatic' conditional sentences can only appear as indicative and never as subjunctive conditionals, given the clash between their specific pragmatic features and the semantics of subjunctive conditionals.