78 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 191 



The third aspect morpheme indicates a remote state and occurs with 

 only a limited number of verb stems: 



g^-ta--iDA it is full (something remote from the speaker) 



Compare: 



ga-td it is full {something at hand) 



Condition. — Verbs which are linked to the larger context by various 

 kinds of subordinate or conditional relationships occur with one 

 of a class of suffixes of rather elusive semantic categorization: 



skuizuwa--ne when he paid me 

 skuizijwa-nu« if he pays me 



Compare: 



skuizuwA he paid me 



In addition to the patterns of inflection indicated above, the expression 

 of specific grammatical categories sometimes involves irregular changes 

 in the verb stem (see pp. 99 ff.). In some cases there are changes of 

 such a revolutionary character that the phenomenon may best be de- 

 scribed as stem suppletion, which most commonly involves intransi- 

 tive verbs in the three numbers: 



zii-sB / went 



sad- 6*1*6717 we two went 

 sad-eku we went 



In rare cases, the expression of continuative action or of plural object 

 number in transitive verbs involves stem suppletion: 



c-^ku he hit him c-iy^inA I found him 



c-a-pi-kuyA he is biting him s-Iwade-nA / found them 



INFLECTIONAL AFFIXES 



Each inflectional afiix is assigned an identification number and is a 

 member of a century class. Century classes are numbered according 

 to the relative order of occmTence of their members within transitive 

 verbs. An exception to this sequential numbering of century classes 

 is the case of classes 100 and 200 which are never represented in the 

 same verb. Members of both Century Class 100 and 200 are always 

 in initial position in the verb. 



Century Class 100 includes aU pronominal afiixes.* Within the 

 class are nine decade classes (100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 

 and 180), each of which includes affixes indicating a specific subject 

 or subject-object combination. Within each decade class, with the 

 exception of 180, there are six morphemes (numbered 101-106, 111- 

 116, etc.), each of which is characteristic of a specific mode. Century 



< These are termed "affixes" rather than specifically "prefixes" or "suffixes" because, although they occur 

 most commonly as prefixes, there are some intransitive verbs in which they occur as suffixes. 



