BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES TAKELMA 197 



Plural: 



First person, yana'Vi^ e^hW 



Second person, yana'Vi^ eifp" 

 Impersonal: yanayauVi^ 



The conditional is used not merely, as its name implies, to express 

 the protasis of a condition, but as the general subordinate form of 

 unrealized activity; as such it may often be translated as a temporal 

 or relative clause, an introductory adverb or relative pronoun serving 

 to give it the desired shade of meaning. Examples of its use other 

 than as a conditional, in the strict sense of the word, are: 



yokloya'^n (1) ne¥ (2) Idxbigi^ (3) I know (1) who (2) will give 



you to eat (3) 

 dewe'nxa (1) al-xl'lcHn (2) gwi^ne (3) yana'h'i^ (4) I shall see him (2) 



to-morrow (1), when (3) he goes (4) 

 al-xi'^xin¥ (1) gwi^ne (2) yana'Vi^ elt'e^ (3) he will see me (1) 



when (2) I go (3) 

 gwen-t'gd''-ho'¥danda (1) ts'ld'Hligi^ (2) yd''' (3) lie^ne (4) ya'« (5) 



xe^hagwa'n (6) just (3) Hvhen they touch (2) the eastern 



extremity of the earth (1), just (5) then (4) I shall destroy 



them (6) 144.15 



It has a comparative signification (as though) in: 



p!i^ (1) de-gil'ldalxgi^ (2) na^naga'^^ (3) it was (3) as though fire 

 (1) were glowing (2) 142.1 



Conditional sentences are of two types : 



(1) Simple, referring to action of which, though unfulfilled, there 

 yet remains the possibility of fulfillment. 



(2) Contrary to fact, the hypothetical activity being beyond the 

 possibility of fulfillment. 



Both types of condition require the conditional form in the protasis, 

 but differ in the apodosis. The apodosis of a simple conditional sen- 

 tence contains always a future form (or inferential, if the apodosis is 

 negative) , that of a contrary-to-fact condition, a potential. Examples 

 of simple conditions are : 



ga (1) na^nd¥i^ eif (2) haxada'^ (3) if you do (2) that (1), you'll 



get burnt (3) 

 d¥ (1) yana'¥i^ (2) gl^ (3) Tiono^ (4) yana'fe^ (5) if he (1) goes (2), 



I (3) go (5) too (4) 

 wede (1) yana'¥i^ (2) gl^ (3) hono^ (4) wede (5) yana'¥a^ (6) if he 



does not (1) go (2), I (3) won't (5) go (6) either (4) 

 gwaU (1) maJiai (2) wo'¥i^ (3) ga (4) nd'^gi'^¥ (5) if a great (2) 



wind (1) arrives (3), say (5) that! (4) 196.19 



1 Just when = as soon as. 



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