This paper documents a novel pattern in the expression of conditional statements
about future in Farsi. When both p and ¬p are equally plausible future events, the antecedent
of conditional statements about future can either be marked with imperfective or perfective.
Conditionals whose antecedent is marked with perfective necessarily give rise to ‘performative’
interpretations in the consequent. I propose an analysis that derives the differences between the
two conditionals from their sole linguistics difference, i.e. the semantics of aspectual heads,
and general principles of pragmatic reasoning.