An anankastic conditional is a
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.
Grammatical constructions form the primary unit of study in constructio ...
of the form
:''If you want X, you have to do Y.''
where Y is required in order to get X, insisting a peremptory conditionate. For example:
:''If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.''
Notes
External links
Janneke Huitink ''Analyzing anankastic conditionals and sufficiency modals''->
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