Abstract
This paper is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of ‘nominal’if-clauses in English. I will show that a number of conceptual and empirical difficulties arise when we try to account for them strictly within Chomsky's general framework. To overcome these difficulties, a new analysis will be proposed with in the‘dynamic’model of grammar, which has been developed in Kajita 1977, 1983a, b, c, 1984. It will be shown that the discussion here provides empirical evidence in favor of the ‘dynamic’theory over the‘static’one.
