Publications

Publication details [#6241]

Linde, Charlotte. 1976. Constraints on the ordering of if-clauses. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 280–285.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | discourse progression | if-clause

Annotation

An attempt to formulate contextual constraints on the relative ordering of an if-clause and its main clause. The main principle she proposes: the reported order of events will mirror the actual order.