Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Abbreviations vi
4. Table of Contents vii
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Conditional connecting devices 19
7. Chapter 3. Some preliminary terminology 37
8. Chapter 4. The possible-world typology of conditionals 65
9. Chapter 5. The use of tenses in possible-world conditionals 111
10. Chapter 6. Modalized case-specifying conditionals 197
11. Chapter 7. The three canonical tense patterns 231
12. Chapter 8. The relation between the theoretical world and the actual world 257
13. Chapter 9. A typology of case-specifying P-clauses 277
14. Chapter 10. Rhetorical conditionals 319
15. Chapter 11. Syntactically marked conditional structures 367
16. Chapter 12. Sufficient and/or necessary conditions 421
17. Chapter 13. Uses and interpretations of unless 447
18. Chapter 14. The meanings and uses of even if 461
19. Glossary 473
20. References 513
21. Author’s index 527
22. Subject index 529
23. 537-538 537