A selection of symposium papers on conditionality, with insights from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualization. One major question addressed is what conceptual categories fall under conditionality or how far the notion of conditionality can be extended.

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 3. Part I: The core of conditionals; 4. Conditionals and counterfactuals: conceptual primitives and linguistic universals (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 5. Conditionality, hypotheticality, counterfactuality (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 6. The relation between past time reference and counterfactuality: a new look (by Dahl, Osten); 7. Mood, tense and the interpretation of conditionals (by Tynan, John); 8. Part II: Single conditional constructions; 9. Unless and but conditionals: a historical perspective (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 10. Conditional perfection (by Auwera, Johan van der); 11. Generics and habituals (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 12. Conditionals and restrictives on generics (by Ziv, Yael); 13. Part III: Basic dimensions of conditionality; 14. Conditionality as cognitive distance (by Werth, Paul); 15. Conceptualization: conditionals as an instance of figure/ground alignment (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 16. Conditionals and polarity (by Taylor, John R.); 17. Conditionality in dimensional perspective (by Seiler, Hansjakob); 18. Part IV: Conditionals in use; 19. Negative conditionality, subjectification, and conditional reasoning (by Akatsuka, Noriko); 20. The emergence of conditionals in child language: are they really so late? (by Katis, Demetra); 21. Speaking conditionally: some contexts for if-clauses in conversation (by Ford, Cecilia E.); 22. Subject Index