Re: Irrealis and if-clauses in Rinya

Daniel Andreasson wabbe

> 2. Discovery one led to discovery two. If-clauses have been
> a problem since it's kinda boring to have just a word 'if'
> and a word 'then'. But when I discovered the irrealis mood,
> I also discovered a better way of doing if-clauses. Like this:
[examples snipped]
> Thus, the if-clause is expressed by present + irrealis and
> the then-clause is expressed by future + irrealis. What do
> you think?
In Biwa the irrealis is used in the if-clause, while another mood: the
potential is used in then-clause.

> PS. If you think the example is weird, it's a part of a
> translation I'm doing of a Swedish raptext.
I was thinking also in a Swedish approach for the conditional:
if-clause in interrogative and then-clause in indicative, but Biwa has
only one interrogative and is neither positive nor negative...
probably a periphrasis...

Two kind of conditionals is as Spanish has it ("si" = if; "entonces" =
then):
  "si" + indicative, "entonces" + indicative
or
  "si" + subjunctive, "entonces" + conditional

The second one is an "hipotetical" conditional, while the first shows
a cause-effect relationship.  This could be made in Biwa as:
  interrogative + indicative (either positive or negative)
  irrealis + contidional.

-- Carlos Th