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A verb phrase rather than a single verb may fill the predicate slot, 

 although this construction is statistically much less frequent. Four 

 types of modifying elements may occur with a verb in a verb phase. 



1. A qualif3n.ng word may occur either preceding or following the 

 verb: 



P 



su "^^isf ha- nu-yu- k&-ni 



there east alone he walked 

 Then he walked eastward alone. 

 P 



?e su '^'e su dd'^'Mzi 66ci 



he went too 



to bed 

 Then he went to bed, too. 



2. The particle ^eu may precede or follow the verb. This particle, 

 which cannot be adequately translated into English, gives additional 

 emphasis to a particular word or phrase: 



P 



su ?e ?ai hau? d^^-^dci ?eu 

 near they arrived 

 Then they came near. 



P 

 'eu sgucipA 

 I need him. 



3. The verb may be preceded by an uninflected word which func- 

 tions semantically as the principal carrier of meaning: 



P 



sumi hdku d^'d.winzahi ?eu caukui-sanu 

 already ready she made his wife 



His wife had things already prepared. 



4. Certain verbs are preceded in most of their occurrences by 

 characteristic particles which have no close semantic equivalent in 

 English. These include ''e, which precedes most forms of the verbs 

 meaning to go and to say, and gui ?, which precedes the verb to do: 



P 



su ?e ?eu d^d-mf ?e cdza 



eagle he said 



And then the eagle said, 



su "^e yuk4- ku-tf 



that way mountain 

 Go away to the mountains! 



P 

 zi gui' g^dekuyA 

 what you are doing 

 What are you doing? 



