Anankastic conditional
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An anankastic conditional is a grammatical construction
of the form
where Y is required in order to get X. For example:
Grammatical construction
In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs....
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 get with my friends.
External links
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