Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Conditional sentence with a subjunctive form in the opening clause (e.g. If I were hungry, I would eat something) whose closing clause would be true if the opening clause were true. Counterfactual sentences play an important role with regard to possible worlds in semantic descriptions.
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