Abstract
In Italian, thematic or resumptive conditionals, ‘Dutchman Sentences’, conditional inducements and deterrents, and conditional speech acts can only be found as indicative conditionals, and (almost) never as subjunctive conditionals. In the present paper, I argue that this morphosyntactic constraint on four types of ‘pragmatic’ conditional depends on the interrelation between their specific pragmatic features and the semantics of mood choice in the standard Italian conditional system of moods and tenses, which will be analyzed, together with the basic meaning of se (‘if’), in a neo-Gricean fashion.
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