BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 581 



3d person singular, masculine 

 3d person singular, feminine 

 3d person singular, neuter . 



3d person dual 



3d person plural .... 

 Indefinite 



Transitive Intransitive Possessive 



tc- i- -i- 



g- a- -tea- -ga- 



L- L- -L- 



c- c- ct- -ct- 



t- t- (o-, n-, a-) -t- -g- 



q- - - 



It will be seen from this list that most of the forms in the three 

 series are identical. A differentiation exists in the first person and 

 in the third person singular (masculine and feminine). In all these 

 forms the exclusive appears as the dual and plural of the first person, 

 while the inclusive seems to be characterized by the terminal -x-. n- 

 may be interpreted as the first person, m- as the second person, t- as 

 the characteristic of the dual, and c as that of the plural of these 

 persons. 



The third person plural exhibits a number of irregularities which 

 will be discussed in § 21. 



§19. The Post-Pt'ononiinal g 



In a number of cases these pronouns are followed by the sound g, 

 which, judging from its irregular occurrence in the present form of 

 the language, may have had a wider application in former times. 



(1) The transitive subject (except the first and second persons 

 singular, the third person singular masculine and feminine, and the 

 indefinite q) is followed by g or li, which give to the preceding pronoun 

 its transitive value. 



a-L-li-L-d'-wa^ it killed it {a- transitional; l- neuter subject; -Tc- 

 prefix giving the preceding l- its transitive character; -l- 

 neuter object; -a- directive; -wa^ stem to kill) 



a-t-k-L-o'-cg-am they took it {a- transitional; t- they; -Ic- [as 

 abovel; x- neuter object; -cistern to take; -am completion) 



a-n-L-o'-cg-am I took it (same as last, but with n- i as subject, 

 which does not take the following -Ic-) 



When followed by a vowel (including e), the -Jc- sound is more 

 like a sonant, and has been written -g-. When the subject pronoun is 

 accented, the e, which carries the accent, follows the g, so that the 

 transitive pronoun and the -g- form a unit. 



a-L-g-i-o' -cg-am it took him (same as above, but with l- it as 

 subject, followed by -g- instead of -k- before i-, which is mas- 

 culine object) 



d-tg-E'-t-a-x they do them. 



§19 



