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7. Connecting the preposition a (see § 67) with the following noun. 

 [a] -L. 



k'^atshH ((L qal-ts' a' p they landed at the town 107.13 



le-hvA'U ah lax-16'dp it is on the stone 109. 4 



a'lg'ixL (jal-ts'a'p ah dsm SErri'd'g'it the people said he should be 



chief 163.10 {a'lg'ix to say; dEm future; sEntd'yit chief) 

 mdLt ah nak'st he told his wife 165.11 

 (/.)-.. ^ 



(I'lg'vxt as ne'tg'e he said to him 157.1 



(I'lg'vxt as Ts'ak- he said to Ts'ak- 120.6 



l"-et sg'it as Txd' insEin he laid it before Txa'msEm 48.10 



8. Connecting- the conjunction qan with the following noun. 

 {a) -L. 



hl'ya elx qaiiL he! ya dzlx fat of seal and fat of porpoise 161.12 

 Idx qariL seso' setii lidn trout and little salmon 157.4 



(C) -v. 



ne' En qans ne' e qans tt^e' Edze you and I and my grandmother 

 157.10 



PREDICATIVE AND POSSESSIVE CONNECTIVES OF THE TSIM- 

 SHIAN DIALECT (§§24-31) 



§ 24. General Characteristics of the Connectives 



While the connectives -s- and -I seem to be regularly used in 

 the Nass dialect, they are absent in Tsimshian in many cases, and a 

 nuich more complicated series takes their place. We have to dis- 

 tinguish between the connectives in indicative and subjunctive sen- 

 tences; those belonging to the subject of the intransitive and 

 object of the transitive verb; and those belonging to the subject of 

 the transitive verb. Furthermore, those belonging to common nouns 

 must be distinguished from those belonging to proper nouns; and 

 in each form, indefinite location, presence, and absence, are treated 

 differently. Some of these endings are very rare; others, the exist- 

 ence of which may be expected by analogy, have so far not been 

 found. The series of forms in which a proper name appears as 

 subject of the transitive verb is, for instance, hardly found at all, 

 because sentences of this form are almost invariably rendered by 

 a periphrastic form: "It was (John) who" ... It will be 

 noticed in the following discussion that the prepositional and pos- 

 sessive forms agree with the predicative forms. The peculiar 

 agreement of the indicative connectives of the subject of the tran- 

 §24 



