Comparative Concept: conditional referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
conditional referent (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | conditional referent |
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an unspecified referent in the protasis in a conditional construction. Example: in If you hear anything, tell me, anything is a conditional pronoun expressing a referent that is found only in the hypothetical world introduced by the protasis of the conditional construction. (Section 3.5)