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Natural Language Semantics is devoted to semantics and its Interfaces in grammar, especially syntax The Journal seeks to encourage the convergence of approaches employmg the concepts of logic and philosophy with perspectives of generative grammar on the relations between meanmg and structure Natural Language Semantics publishes studies focused on linguistic phenomena äs opposed to those deahng pnmanly with the field's methodological and formal foundations Representative topics include, but are not The Journal features mainly research articles, but also short squibs äs well äs remarks on and replies to pertinent books and articles Natural Language Semantics is abstracted m Sociological Abstracts, Lngu/stic Bib/iography, Mandarin Chinese exhibits two paradigms of conditionals with indefinite wA-words that have the semantics of donkey sentences, represented by 'bare conditionals' on the one band and ruguo-and Aw-conditionals on the other The bare conditionals require multiple occurrences of wA-words, disallowmg the use of overt or covert anaphonc elements in the consequent clause, whereas the ruguo-and dou-condi-tionals present a completely opposite pattern We argue that the bare conditionals are cases of unselective bmdmg par excellence (Heim 1982, Kamp 1981) while the ruguo-and ifow-conditionals are most naturally accounted for with the traditional E-type pronoun strategy of Evans (1980). We thus argue partly for a return to the Ε-type strategy (along with Heim 1990) but maintam the need for unselective bmdmg m UG (cf. Kratzer 1989, Chierchia 1992) It is further shown that these two paradigms do not differ with respect to the Proportion problem and the distnbution of Symmetrie and asymmetnc readings of Kadmon (1987), though they differ with respect to V and 3 readings (discussed in Chierchia 1992) in a non-tnvial way that provides further Support for the proposed approach. Finally, evidence is given that the bare conditionals should be kept apart from correlative constructions in languages like Hindi, and treated differently from the latter