An pedu ne. ‗I‘m going to go on ahead of you.‘

152 Event Time-Communication of Event A in the least ―independent prior conditions‖, and those that in some sense are vitally tied to the performance of Event A ―dependent prior conditions‖. The difference between these two types of prior conditions is very subtle, and we will attempt to explain the difference by contrasting examples. In its simplest form, it is the difference between saying, ―When the taxi comes, Paul will leave the house e.g., on foot. ‖ and ―When the taxi comes, Paul will leave the house in it. ‖ In Sentence 1, Paul could as easily have picked some other time to leave the house, e.g., ―At 3:45 p.m., Paul will leave. ‖ Paul‘s leaving is independent of the taxi coming, but Paul has chosen to wait until the taxi comes before leaving. In Sentence 2, however, Paul cannot possibly leave in the taxi until the taxi is there. Paul ‘s leaving is dependent on the taxi ‘s coming because, for some reason, Paul cannot go by any other means. Now consider some more subtle examples: Examples 1. ―When I arrived home, I ate some food.‖ The above condition can be considered in two ways: Independent prior condition: ―I was carrying some food with me, but I arbitrarily decided not to eat it until I arrived home. ‖ Dependent prior condition: ―My arriving home was a necessary precondition to my eating the food e.g., that is where the food was. ‖ 2. ―When you go to eat, I will read my book.‖ The above condition can be considered in two ways: Independent prior condition: ―I will arbitrarily set the time when I start reading as the time you go to eat. I could as easily have said, ‗In twenty minutes, I will read my book.‘‖ Dependent prior condition: ―You came here to talk to me, so it would be inappropriaterudeabsurd to read my book just now. I ‘ll wait until you go to eat before I read my book.‖ 3. ―When you are ready to sleep, take this medicine.‖ The above condition can be considered in two ways: Independent prior condition: ―I am thinking of the time you are going to sleep as a convenient time to take the medicine. ‖ Or you could say, ―There is no special time in which you need to take this medicine, but when you go to sleep would be as good a time as any.‖ Dependent prior condition: ―In some sense, it is important to the taking of this medicine that you be ready to go to sleep e.g., maybe it is a sleeping pill and would not help you at another time of day. ‖ Kunas use different suffixes to express the subtle difference between dependent prior conditions and independent prior conditions, so it is important that you are aware of this difference. a Independent prior condition In the independent prior condition construction, Event A could normally take place at any time, for it really has no logical connection at all with Event B. Event A is independent of the performance of Event B. However, the speaker chooses to define the time at which Event A happened or will happen, by relating it to the performance of Event B. When the condition for Event B to take place is viewed as being independent of the performance of Event A, the suffix -dgin is added to the Event B verb. Examples 1. An kukaledgin kukunaidgin mas kunne. ‗When I will am flying in the plane, I am going to eat. ‘ ← Event B → ← Event A →