Abstract
Abstract We provide a survey of major issues in the syntax of conditionals, advancing the view that if ‐clauses are free relatives of possible worlds. Similarly to the more familiar instances of free relatives of individuals, (i) conditional clauses likely involve clause‐internal operator‐movement to [SpecCP]; (ii) they receive the interpretation of definite descriptions; and (iii) they may participate in correlative structures as happens in the subcase of conditionals with the proform then . Going beyond the core cases of hypothetical conditionals, we also examine the syntax of relevance and factual conditionals.
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