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la- burst, rip open 

 al- look, see 



The resemblance between this use of the Takelma body-part prefixes 

 and the Siouan use of verb prefixes denoting instrumental activities 

 (e. g., Ponka ha- by pressing with the hand, ma- by cutting, ^a- 

 wiTH THE mouth, BY BLOWING) is not far to seek, although in Takelma 

 the development seems most plausibly explained from the local, rather 

 than the instrumental, force of the prefixes. Neither the employment 

 of Takelma body-part nor of Siouan instrumental prefixes with verb 

 stems is in any morphologic respect comparable to the peculiar com- 

 position of initial and second-position verb stems characteristic of 

 Algonkin and Yana. The same general psychic tendency toward 

 the logical analysis of an apparently simple activity into its com- 

 ponent elements, however, seems evident in the former as well as in 

 the latter languages. 



§ 37. LOCAL PREFIXES 



The purely local prefixes, those that are not in an}^ way associated 

 with parts of the body, are to be divided into two groups: 



(1) Such as are used also in the formation of noun and pronoun 

 local phrases or of postpositions, these being in that regard closely 

 allied to the body-part prefixes in their more general local use; and 



(2) Such as are employed strictly as verbal prefixes, and are inca- 

 pable of entering into combination with denominating elements. The 

 following table gives all the common prefixes of both groups, examples 

 of noun or pronoun local phrases being added in the last column: 



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