Conditional-and Constructions: A Construction-based Approach

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, I argue that the conditional-and construction is a combination of a subordinating clause and a main clause, to be compatible with the syntax and semantics of the construction. In the literature, the structure for the conditional-and construction has not been proposed separately from the coordinate construction, although the researchers noted that the conditional-and construction shares a number of properties with if-conditional rather than coordinating-and construction. Unlike the previous analyses, this study claims that the conditional-and construction is syntactically a subordinate structure and treats the conditional conjunction as a main clause marker, independent of its coordinating counterpart. In specific, I propose the new constructional types conditional-conj(unction)-cl(ause) and conditional-and-cl within a construction-based HPSG framework. What I propose can account for the syntactic and semantic properties without positing any non-standard syntactic mechanism. Moreover, it deals with other relevant constructions with the conditional conjunction, by suggesting the subtypes under the unified constructional organization.

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