Coordinated ifs and theories of conditionals

Abstract This paper concerns the semantics of coordinated if -clauses, as in (1)-(2). It is argued that the meanings of such sentences are explained straightforwardly on theories of conditionals that tie their non- monotonic behaviour to the if -clause itself (e.g. Schlenker 2004, but not theories that tie it to a (covert) modal operator (e.g. Kratzer 1981; 1991). Coordinated if -clauses are revealing of the fine-grained compositional semantics of conditionals.