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In the field of syntax, conditional sentences were the research focus of many studies concentrating upon different aspects of such constructions: structure, tenses used in protasis and apodosis, etc. (X ove 1986; Veiga 1991). Some of these studies have examined the peculiarities which occur in conditionals according to the linguistic territory occupied by them. By taking into account these previous works, the objective of this present study is to analyse conditional sentences in the different Romance languages which converge in the Iberian Peninsula (Galician, Portuguese, Astur - Leonese and Castilian). The different tenses present in the protasis and apodosis of these sentences will be the chief focus of th is study, which will examine the most frequent in each language and observe whether there is some kind of dialectal distribution or not. The basis for this will be the data provided by the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica ( ALPI ) and the three cond itional sentences featured in this atlas will form the core of the present analysis.
