Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Simple conditional clauses identify a single condition under which a modified clause is true. In contrast, exhaustive conditionals (ECs) identify a set of conditions under all of which the clause is true. Two binary distinctions give four possible types of EC. Three of these are found in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Unlike English ECs, MSA ECs have essentially the same distribution as simple conditionals. Three rather different analyses seem appropriate for the three types, but they share a number of properties allowing the similarities between the three types to be captured.
DOI: 10.21248/hpsg.2024.2
Authors: Abeer Alsulami, Robert D. Borsley
Institutions: King Saud University, University of Essex, Bangor University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408772937