La Oración Condicional en Kari？？a: La Morfología de La Irrealidad y La Contrafactualidad

this paper describes conditional sentences in kari？？a, a carib(an) language of venezuela spoken by some 4451 people. the conditional sentence is a sentence integrated by a subordinate, adverbial clause or protasis (p), which expresses the condition, and a main clause or apodosis (a), which expresses the result. most classifications of such sentences analyze the semantic relationship between p and a, as well as its formal expression by means of the morpho-semantic properties of the verbs in both clauses. we explain how, in kari？？a, structural aspects are related to the manners of possible interpretations. we focus on the differences between irrealis conditionals and counter-factual conditionals. finally, a morphological analysis is provided for the main verb forms used in both clauses of these sentences.