Anankastic conditional

Anankastic conditional

An anankastic conditional is a grammatical construction of the form

:"If you want X, you have to do Y."

where Y is required in order to get X. For example:

:"If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give."

External links

* [http://www.phil.kun.nl/tfl/janneke/console13-huitink.pdf Janneke Huitink "Analyzing anankastic conditionals and sufficiency modals"]
* [http://mattweiner.net/blog/archives/000146.html Opinionatry "If You Want To Get To Sugar Hill in Harlem"]


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