Quasi-causal ʻalreadyʼ conditionals

Bastian Persohn; Anna Jachimek

Quasi-causal ʻalreadyʼ conditionals

Bastian Persohn, Anna Jachimek

Published: 27 May 2025, Last Modified: 27 May 2025ICLC-11 OralEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0

Keywords: conditionals, semantics, pragmatics, language contact, construction grammar

TL;DR: In our talk, we focus on a peculiar type of conditional construction that is characterized by i) an already’ adverbial in the antecedent clause and ii) a pragmatic presupposition that the antecedent proposition holds true.

Submission Number: 67

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