... Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 336 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam This account is an attempt to provide a brief description of some semantic ... them, namely, the causal relations, the inferential relations, and the speech act relations. The "sufficient conditionality" theory suggested by Van der Auwera is regarded as the basis ... analysis. In the causal conditionals, the event or state of affair described by the conditional clause, if realized, will be sufficient for the realization of the event or state of affair described...