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- ISBN: 9780815333098 | 0815333099
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/1/1999
Investigates the meaning of conditional markers, in particular si in Spanish and if in English, using both naturally occurring and constructed data. Argues that the hypotheticality or irrealis-ness they express is not due to the encoded semantics of the markers themselves, but rather to a Gricean scalar generalized conversational implicature of the speaker's uncertainty associated with the canonical conditional markers.