Adverbial clauses 403
There is no separate word equivalent to the English ‘unless’. Rather the
typical conditional clause is simply negated (61) and (62).
(61) Ja' endha' bukka' mon lo' sampe' dha' roma-na ya!
don’t want open if not until to house-DEF yes
‘Don’t open it unless you are home, ok?’
(62) Ba'eng ja' endha' mole dha’ Madura ban Sumennep, mon gilo’
you don’t want go.home to Madura and Sumenep if not.yet
bisa ma-kala rato Blambangan.
can AV.CS-defeat king Blambangan
‘You won’t be allowed to go home to Madura and Sumenep unless you
defeat the king of Blambangan.’
Used with a temporal expression–such as laggu ‘morning’, malem ‘night’,
lamba' ‘before’, sateya ‘now’, the names of specific days and months and so
on–the conditional structure indicates the time at which some state of affairs
usually obtains, as in (63) and (64).
(63) Biyasana mon gu-laggu reng-oreng Balanda jiya late-yan
usually if RED-morning RED-person Dutch this drill-NOM
rang-perrang-an neng lon-alon.
RED-war-NOM at alun-alun
‘Usually every morning the Dutch soldiers did drills on the alun-alun.’
(64) Ban taon, apa pole mon Tellasan,bannya' oreng se nyalase dha'
every year what again if Idul Fitri many person REL AV.pray to
reng towa-na.
parent-DEF
‘Every year at Idul Fitri, many people pray for their parents.’
Conditionals can be used as a type of topicalization. In this structure mon
or kalamon occurs with a noun and a pronoun (generally null) occurs as the
subject or the possessor of the subject of the main clause. This is illustrated in
(65) and (66).
(65) Biyasana, mon pate jiya, kodu seggut a-seba dha' rato.
usually if minister this should often AV-face to king
‘Usually the chief minister should meet with the queen frequently.’