Irrelevance conditional

Irrelevance conditional describes a special case of a sentence structure . The leading subordinate clause resembles a conditional clause in a conditional structure and is introduced with prepositions such as if (also), whatever (always) or whatever . But the statement of this subordinate clause becomes irrelevant (meaningless) for the statement in the core clause .

Examples

• Even if the wine is sour, Petra will drink it anyway.
• What Susi also suggests: Max refuses.
• However it rains, Paul will take his walk.
• Even if you are right a hundred times, I cannot change overnight.

In the case of an irrelevance conditional, the stated circumstance is therefore not asserted as a condition, but in the respective case as irrelevant for the occurrence of an event.

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• Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Metzler, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01519-X .