Otherwisedepending
Otherwisedepending is a neologism formed by combining otherwise and depending to describe a particular kind of dependency found in discourse and analysis. It is used to flag that the interpretation, outcome, or truth-conditional content of a statement depends on alternate possibilities introduced by otherwise.
The term does not have an established, cross-disciplinary definition. It circulates mainly in informal writing and
Example usages are found in speculative or analytic writing: The plan will be adopted, otherwisedepending on
Usage notes: otherwisedepending should be treated as a stylistic cue rather than a formal technical term. When
See also: conditional sentence, contingency, dependency grammar, discourse marker.