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The occurrence of affix 181 is rather restricted and apparently 

 not related to class membership except that allomorphs of this affix 

 correlate with those of affix 121. The data indicate a correlation of 

 allomorph 181A with 121A or 121E, ISlB with 121D, and ISlD with 

 121G: 



sg-a-mA (181A + stem) one's houses 



g-i-mA (121A or 121E + stem) his house 



sk-dukui (181 B + stem) one's wives 



k-dukui (121D + stem) his wife 



sc-i-kA (181D + stem) one's mouths 



z-l-kA (12 IG + stem) his mouth 



Allomorph 18 IC occurs in the data only in scau?u a crowd. An 

 apparently related form is gau'i'u he dwells, although the correlation 

 is not certain. 



Intransitive verbs may be subclassified, as are transitive verbs, 

 on the basis of their occurrence with specific aUomorphs of the inflec- 

 tional suffixes. Since intransitive verbs are listed and classified 

 separately for the three numbers, affixes of Century Class 500 are not 

 involved, and such a subclassification would be based solely on allo- 

 morphs of suffix 401. Rather than designate intransitive subclasses 

 by a code, it is simpler to indicate directly the allomorph of suffix 401 

 with which the verbs occur. 



Paradigms illustrating the major intransitive verb classes are to be 

 found in Appendix 1, page 143. 



VERBAL AUXILIARIES 



Verbal auxiliaries are a class of words which always are inflected to 

 indicate person and sometimes are inflected to indicate other gram- 

 matical categories as well. They are distinguished formally from 

 verbs in that they are never inflected to indicate future tense. 

 Semantically and functionally they differ from verbs in that alone 

 they cannot constitute a predicate. 



The function of the verbal auxiliary is to indicate the person of the 

 subject or the subject and object of an action when this is not other- 

 wise indicated. The most common occurrence of verbal auxiliaries 

 is in conjunction with verbs in the future tense. In such cases the 

 verb does not include a pronominal affix: 



nupE si (future tense prefix, n- + verb stem followed by auxiliary, si) 



I will eat 

 nl-zdwA si / will pay him 



Compare : 



supE (first person prefix, s- + verb stem) I ate 

 cf-zuvvA / paid him 



The verbal auxiliary may also occur following a verb containing an 

 allomorph of affiux 124 (third person subject with third person object 



