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Anothergroupthatisoftentreatedunderthesameheading,isthatofco-ordi-
nateconstructionswithimperatives,like:
[29]
SayawordandI’llkillyou.
[30]
GivemethemoneyorI’llsendthephotostothenewspapers.
(NaylorandHagger1972)
Undoubtedly,theyhaveaninterpretationthatresemblesconditionals,butre-
quireaseparateanalysis.
Bolingerdevotesonesectiontotheproblemofdon’t,andwhathecalls“im-
perativeconditions”.Hetreatsthemasclauseswithadeletedsubject.Inall
conditionswherenegativedon’taccordswiththenumberandpersonofthe
deletedsubject,likein[31],[32],[33]and[34]hefindsthestructureacceptable
notlimitingitonlytothemeaningofsecondsingularorsecondplural,which
broadensthepossibilityofitsapplication(Bolinger1977:190):
[31]
([If]I)don’twork,(and)Idon’tgetpaid.
[32]
([If]they)don’tfirehim,(and)theywon’thavetopayhim.
[33]
([If]we)don’thangontoyourjobs,(and)howdoweeat?
[34]
([If]you)don’tkeepupappearances,(and)it’shardtogetahead.
Butnotforthethirdsingular:
[35]
*([If]she)doesn’twork,(and)shedoesn’tgetpaid.
Hesuggestsusingdon’tforthethirdsingularinconditionsresemblingcom-
mands:
[36]
Don’tletherselfbefooled,andshewon’thavetosuffertheconse-
quences.
BothinEnglishandPolishconditionalclausesofdirectconnectionalways
precedethemainclause.Moreover,thepredicate,thoughintheformofimpera-
tivemoodorinfinitive,hasnostandardimperativemeaning;itisneitheraques-
tion,noracommand.Whattheyimplyistheconditiononwhichtheactivityof
themainclauseisdependent.Anyofthosesentencescanbeeasilychangedinto
standardif...then...clauses,e.g.sentence[21]:
[37]
Ifyougotowork,(then)you’llgetsomemoney.
or[23]:
[38]
Jeśliwygraszwpolu,(to)wygrasziwsądzie.
InEnglish,conjunction-lessstructuresareobtainedalsoasaresultoftheap-
plicationoftheruleofinversion:
