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We may revert here once more to the lack of differentiation of verb 

 and noun. In sentences like the one just described there is a perfect 

 freedom in regard to the selection of subject and predicate. Instead 

 of saying came — he— the man, the Kwakiutl may say as well it 

 WAS-THE-MAN — IT — THE COMING (257.20). The words TO COME and 

 MAN may be used ecpially as nouns and as verbs, and by syntactic 

 means either may be made subject or predicate. 



Whenever the pronoun is followed by a noun or when used as a 

 nominal demonstrative, its form is modified. When the noun con- 

 tains a possessive pronoun, this pronoun is also incorporated in the 

 modified pronominal form. We may therefore distinguish between 

 purely pronominal and prenominal forms. It must be borne in mind 

 that both are verbal in so far as they determine the function of the 

 complements of the verb, and also because they are firmly united 

 with the verb. The prenominal forms belong, of course, exclu- 

 sively to the third person, and ha\e demonstrative significance. 

 While in the pronominal forms visibility and invisibility are distin- 

 guished, this division is not made in the prenominal forms. In the 

 possessive prenominal forms the second and third persons are not 

 clearly differentiated. 



The demonstrative idea expressed in these verbal forms is sup- 

 plemented by a parallel postnominal form, which is suffixed to the 

 noun following the prenominal pronoun. These postnominal forms 

 are closely related to the pronouns and prenominal forms, but show 

 a certain amount of differentiation in the demonstrative of the sec- 

 ond and third persons. 



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We may summarize these statements in the following tables : 

 I. VERBAL SUFFIXES 



1st person 

 Inclusive 

 Exclusive 

 2d person 

 3d person 



Subject. 



-EnU) 



-Ens 



-snu^xu 



Pronominal. 



Object. 



Instrumental. 



-En(L) 



-Ens 



.Enu^x'i 



-OS 



Prenominal. 



Subject. 



Object. 



Instru- 

 mental. 



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