Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Tables and figures -- Dedication -- Quote -- Introduction -- 1. Counterfactuality: a theoretical overview -- 2. Expressing conditionality in French, Spanish and Italian -- 3. Acquisition of counterfactuality in L1 and L2 -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results in L1 French, Spanish and Italian -- 6. Results in L2 French -- 7. Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Index