Adverbial clauses 401
Although the reason clause generally precedes or follows the main clause,
it occasionally occurs within the main clause, usually right after the subject or
agent.
(52) Se ponggaba-na, ja'reng lo' nompa' pa-apa, a-berka' sampe' dha'
REL staff-DEF because not AV.ride RED-what AV-run until to
Bang Selo.
Bang Selo
‘The staff person, because he was not riding anything, ran all the way to
Bang Selo.’
(53) Bi' reng-oreng dhissa, polana badha neng kenneng-nga, palataran
with RED-person there because exist at place-DEF yard
Agung jiya, e-nyama-e geddhang agung.
Agung this OV-name-LOC banana noble
‘Because the banana grows at this place, the land around Agung, people
call it geddhang agung.’
In (52), the adverbial clause ja'reng lo' nompa' pa-apa ‘because he wasn’t rid-
ing anything’ immediately follows the subject of the sentence, se ponggabana
‘the staff person’. In (53), the lengthy reason clause, polana badha neng ken-
nengnga, palataran Agung jiya ‘because it is at this place, the land around
Agung’, follows the agent of the sentence, bi' reng-oreng dhissa ‘by the people
there’. Here the main verb of the sentence is in object voice, enyamae ‘is
named’.
3.3 Conditional clauses
Conditional clauses are largely introduced by the subordinator mon ‘if’, a short
form of kalamon. Occasionally, other subordinators are used, such as angsal,
asal, ame', ompamana, and gunana. Conditional constructions are used for a
variety of structures: to set out straight conditions, to express habitual temporal
activities, to express negative conditionals, and to establish a topic.
As is true of most adverbial clauses, the conditional clause may precede
(54-55) or follow (56-57) the main clause.
(54) He, mon ba'eng a-lako, Bang Pote, pa-ceppet!
hey if you AV-work Garlic CS-fast
‘Hey, if you are working, Garlic, go faster!’