Concessive Conditionals Without Even if and Nonconcessive Conditionals with Even if

This paper investigates whether even if A, B is pragmatically polysemic, so that a nonconcessive conditional may have even if, and whether concessive conditionals, pragmatically defined, can fail to have even if or a non-temporal still. Different paraphrases are used to help elucidate pragmatic meanings. A theory of the pragmatic meanings of concessive and implicative conditionals is presented. The semantic meaning of even if and the question of whether concessive conditionals imply the truth of their consequents are also discussed.