Foreword
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 Theories of Conditionals and CFCs
1.2 Goals of This Book
1.3 Some Basic Concepts of Conditionals
1.3.1 Various Conditionals
1.3.2 Examining the Grammatical Features of Conditionals
1.4 Structure of This Book
CHAPTER TWO A SURVEY OF CONDITIONALS AND CFCS IN CHINESE
2. 1 Chinese Conditionals
2.1.1 Conditionals vs. Hypotheticals:A New Definition
2.1.2 Subclassification of Conditionals
2.1.3 Chinese and English Conditionals
2.1.3.1 Chinese Donkey Sentences
2.1.3.2 Tense Expressions
2.1.4 Some Grammatical Features of Conditionals in Chinese
2.1.4.1 Hypothetical Conjunctions
2.1.4.2 The Components of a Conditional
2.1.4.3 Subjectivity in Conditionals
2.1.4.4 Conditional as a Typical Irrealis Modal Sentence
2.2 Some Basic Concepts about CFCs
2.2.1 Definitions
2.2.2 CF Sentence as Subjectivised Construction
2.2.3 Modality and CFC
CHAPTER THREE LITERATURE REVIEW
3.1 Early Stage（before 1980s）
3.2 Middle Stage（mid 1980s to early 2000s）
3.2.1 Guohua Chen（1988）and Yan Jiang（2000）
3.2.2 Weixian Wang et a1.（1994），Fuyi Xing（2001） and Jiaxuan Shen（2003）
3.3 Recent Stage（Since the beginning of the 2 1 st century till now
3.3.1 Realis VS.Irrealis—Xiaoying Luo（2006），Min Li（2006），Xiaoling Wang（2007），Xueping Zhang（2008）
3.3.2 Psychological Experimental Approach
3.3.3 Linguistic Approach（Yaoshi（要是）VS.Yaobushi（要不是）一Yuying Su（2008））
CHAPTER FOUR CF INGREDIENTS（I）：TEMPORAL EXPRESSIONS
4.1 A Brief Review of the Previous Studies on Temporal Structure in Chinese
4.1.1 Tripartite Temporal Structure—Ping Chen（1988）
4.1.2 Formal Approaches—Yan Jiang&Haihua Pan（2005）
4.1.3 Temporal Reference—Yang Gu（2007）
4.1.4 Relevance-Account of le（了）and guo（过）一Ljungqvist（2007）
4.2 An Analysis Based on Tripartite Temporal System
4.2.1 Phase
4.2.2 Aspect
4.2.3 Tense
4.3 More on Temporal Anchoring
4.4 Interim Summary
CHAPTER FIVE CF INGREDIENTS（II）
5.1 Hypothetical Conjunctions
5.1.1 Ruguo（如果）（Yaoshi（要是），Yao（要），Jiaru（假如），Jiashi（假使），Jiashe（假设），Tangruo（倘若），Ruruo（如若），Sheruo（设若），etc.）
5.1.2 Yaobushi（要不是）（Ruofei（若非），Ruobushi（若不是），Ruguobushi（如果不是），etc.）
5.1.3 Wanyi（万一）
5.1.4 A Brief Summary
5.1.5 CF Sentences Without C0njunctions
5.2 Negation
5.3 Personal Pronouns
5.4 Rhetorical Questions
5.5 CF Enhancers
5.6 Summary
CHAPTER SIX GENERATING COUNTERFACTUALITY IN MANDARIN CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
6.1 Context Determinism vs. Ingredient Determinism
6.2 Minimalism, Contextualism and Indexicalism
6.3 A Three-Layer Context System
6.3.1 CF Ingredients:Local Context
6.3.1.1 CF Ingredients Revisited
6.3.1.2 Numbers Talk
6.3.1.3 Working Mechanism
6.3.2 Protasis and Apodosis:Compound Sentence Context
6.3.2.1 Binding Argument
6.3.2.2 From Protasis to Apodosis:A Process of Saturation
6.3.3 Macro Context
6.3.4 Interaction of Three Layers of Contexts
CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
7.1 More on the Interpretational System
7.2 Recapitulation
7.3 Suggestions for Future Research
REFERENCES
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
Acknowledgements