CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVESTAN SYNTAX. 



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In both classes of the ideal conditions we find the Optative 

 in the Protasis. With regard to the time-element of these 

 classes of the conditional sentences, it is to be noted that the 

 logical conditions fall either into the present or the past, while 

 the anticipatory conditions are concerned with the future only. 

 The possible conditions, like the anticipatory, imply future time; 

 and the unfulfilled conditions, like one class of the logical, deal 

 with the past. The following diagram may serve to make my 

 divisions more clear. 



Conditions. 



First and foremost it must be observed that the class of a 

 conditional sentence is determined in all cases by the mood (and 

 tense) of its protasis. The form of its apodosis is a secondary 

 matter. 



