| But it's my guess that most people take the first two clauses of the song as the protases of a conditional, rather than as rhetorical questions. |
| Irrealis in both the protases is marked by the inflexional subjunefive, as in Present-day English. |
| For example, it has been argued that all conditional protases are causally related to their apodoses. |
| Chapter 3 discusses protases and apodoses in a general way, before giving a complete list of apodoses attested in the Alamdimmu series. |
| Protases provide the organizing principle, but there should also be a discussion of coordination versus apposition in apodoses. |
