On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives

To summarize, I shall try to list the principal traits of CCC-structures and place them in relation to other structures belonging to the family of conditional structures: (i) Non-predictive conditionals are non-prototypical. a. CCCs cannot appear in non-predictive contexts (i.e., where, in most cases, [if p] equals [given p]); b. CCCs are related to predictive and future-oriented contexts. (ii) Hypotheticals and counterfactuals are non-prototipical (Dancygier 1993: 428). a. CCCs rarely appear in counterfactual contexts, b. CCCs are basically related to central, predictive conditionals (i. e., prototypical conditionals). (iii) In prototypical, predictive conditionals, CCCs are non-central because: a. whereas, in prototypical if-conditionals, clauses are related through causal relationships, in CCC structures, clauses are related through circumstantial relationships, b. whereas the prototypical order of central if-conditionals "if p, q" makes them iconic with the sequence of events, the prototypical order of CCC- conditionals "q, CCC p" makes them iconic with the order involved in processing assertionrestrictions; c. whereas the function of if-clauses is, prototypically, to establish a state of affairs to be taken as the basis for considering the consequent, the function of CCC-clauses is to restrict or specify the contents of the apodosis (hence, their incompatibilrty with then).