Relevance Conditionals as Utterance Modifying Adverbials

Abstract

Relevance conditionals (RCs) such as (1) have puzzled semanticists for decades. In contrast to the case of a regular conditional like (2), the if-clause in a relevance con-ditional does not state a condition under which the consequent is claimed to hold. Instead, the consequent seems to be put forward absolutely, and the if-clause appears

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