'Mits': oud en stout : een nieuw leven voor voorwaardelijk 'mits'

The old and rather neglected, archaic, formal Dutch word 'mits' (English: 'if and only if') started of as a preposition, evolved in current Dutch to a conjunction, whereas the use as a conditional preposition (quite normal in Belgium) is frowned upon. In this article we show that the examples of 'mits' as a preposition expressing condition in the WNT aren't well chosen and that 'mits' expressing condition has started a new life in four different constructions: conjunction, preposition, noun, ellips.