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1. Conditional constructions, mental spaces and semanticcompositionality; 2. Prediction, alternativity and epistemic stance; 3.Tense, epistemic distance and embedded spaces; 4. Future and present forms inconditional constructions; 5. Non-alternatives and alternatives: mentalspaces in different domains; 6. Then and even if: mental-space deixis andreferential uniqueness; 7. Clause order and space building: if, because,unless and except if; 8. Uniqueness and negative stance: only if and if only;9. Coordinate constructions and conditional meaning; 10. The door-scraper inthe Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building;References; Indexes.