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Semantic iconicity indicates that syntactic structure reflects the empirical structure in some ways. This has been widely observed and proved to be true in ordinary language phenomenon. For if-clause, because condition is essential for result, if-clause generally is positioned prior to its main clause. But legal provision is different from ordinary language. The 129 if-clauses in United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods show that, if the main clauses involve authoritative norm, prohibitive norm, mandatory norm and definition norm, the main clauses will be the starting point of the clause. The special positioning of ifclause can be well explained by semantic iconicity for all the emphases of law are nothing but rights and obligations as well as legal certainty. Thus, different from general iconicity, ifclauses have to be positioned after the main clause when rights, obligations and legal certainty are concerned. Keywords—if-clause; legal norm; semantic iconicity; syntax

The Positioning of If-clause in Legal Provisions of CISG and Its Semantic Iconicity