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Speech act adverbial clauses: The case of conditional jeśli-clauses in Polish

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In this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of speech act adverbial clauses in Polish with the main focus on conditional clauses headed by the complementizer jeśli ‘if’. I argue that speech act adverbial clauses radically differ from hypothetical/content conditional clauses, and that they adjoin outside the structure of the matrix clause. As far as their internal syntax is concerned, I discuss evidence showing that speech act adverbial clauses project up to JP in Krifka’s terms (2023), and can also host epistemic and evidential expressions.

Abbreviations

1/2/3–1st/2nd/3rd person, acc – accusative, dat – dative, f – feminine, gen – genitive, hab – habitual, imper – imperative mood, infv – infinitive, instr – instrumental, l-ptcp – l-participle (inflected for number and gender), loc – locative, m – masculine, n-vir – non-virile, neg – negation, pass.aux – passive auxiliary, pl – plural, pst – past tense, refl – reflexive, sg – singular.

Acknowledgments

I thank Imke Mendoza, Björn Wiemer and an anonymous reviewer, who provided valuable comments on the first draft of this work. My thanks also go to Jonathan Watkins for proofreading. Any infelicities which remain are, of course, my responsibility.

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