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Part 1 The core of conditionals: Conditionals and counterfactuals -conceptual primitive and linguistic universals, Anna Wierzbicka;Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality, Angeliki Athanasiadou,Rene Dirven; The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality -a new look, Osten Dahl; Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals,John Tynan, Eva Delgado Lavin. Part 2 Single conditional constructions:Unless and but conditionals - a historical perspective, Elizabeth ClossTraugott; Conditional perfection, Johan van der Auwera; generics andhabituals, Ronald W. Langacker; Conditionals and restrictives on generics,Yael Ziv. Part 3 Basic dimensions of conditionality: Conditionality ascognitive distance, Paul Werth; conceptualization - conditionals as aninstance of figure/ground alignment, Elzbieta Tabakowska; Conditionals andpolarity, John Taylor; Conditionality in dimensional perspective, HansjakobSeiler. Part 4 Conditionals in use: Negative conditionality,subjectification, and conditional reasoning, Noriko Akatsuka; The emergenceof conditionals in child language - are they really so late? Demetra Katis;Speaking conditionally - some contexts for if-clauses in conversation,Cecilia E. Ford.