This book studies the realization of conditional counterfactual meaning in Mandarin Chinese.It first identifies lexical items and syntactic expressions that contribute,explicitly or implicitly,to the formation of counterfactual meaning(such expressions being termed“counterfactual ingredients”in this work).It then provides semantic and pragmatic analysis to the role played by each ingredient in the realization of counterfactuality.Based on the analyses of these ingredients,the book finally attemp...