This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Conditional clauses are underresearched in sign languages, and the research that has been done has mostly employed elicited data. The current ...

Conditionals are used to express both real, likely and unreal situations. As a result, tenses used with them are not flat; they change. That is why the difference between ‘If I arrive’ and ‘If I had ...

A conditional is used to talk about a possible or imaginary situation ( the condition) and the consequences (or the result) of it.