BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — TAKELMA 145 



§50. Indirective -(a)n(art)- "for" 



From transitives, never from intransitives, are formed verbs in 

 -{a)n or -{a)nan- (the first -a- is the connective vowel already spoken 

 of) signifying to do (the act expressed by the verb-stem) for, in 

 BEHALF OF (the objcct of the verb). No rule can be given as to when 

 -(a)n- or -(a) nan- is to be used, the two suffixes being frequently 

 found to interchange in the same form. It is not likely that -(a) nan- 

 is a mere duplication of the simpler -(a)n-, as no other case of suffix- 

 reduplication could be shown to exist in Takelma, but rather a 

 compound suffix consisting of two distinct elements that happen to be 

 homonymous. Neither of the -(a)n- elements in- (a) wan-, however, 

 can be identified with either the causative -{a)n- or the petrified -(a)n- 

 of certain transitive verbs (see § 42,10), for the full -{a)nan- suffix is 

 found suffixed to them (e. g., loho'^ninini'^n I killed him for 

 HIM [ = I caused him to DIE FOR him]) . As in the case of the ordi- 

 nary indirect object-suffix -s-, only the third person (and that, as far as 

 the pronoun is concerned, by implication) is tolerated as the logical 

 object, the grammatical object being always the person in whose 

 behalf the action is done. If the formal (i. e., indirect) object of 

 the verb is of the third person, the -(a)n- or -{a)7ia7i- is nearly always 

 followed by the "instrumental" i (see § 64), an umlaut of the suffix 

 to -{i)n- or -{i)nin- necessarily resulting (see § 8, 3c). The longer 

 form of the suffix -(a)nan is apt to be limited to the aorist forms 

 with third personal object; non-aorist forms and aorist forms with 

 first or second personal object generally have the shorter form of the 

 suffix, -{a)n-. What was said above of a phonetic character in regard 

 to the causative -(a)n- applies also here. Examples are: 



wa^-%-t!oxdxi^n I gather them 

 (192.4) 



%-Tc!u"'ma''n he fixed it 

 (150.13; 186.16,18) 



Transitive Indirectivo 



wa^-l-tloxoxini^n I gather 



them for him 

 wa^-l-tluxux&nxi he gathers 



them for me 

 l-Jdu^mininmi'^n I fixed it for 



him 

 i-Tc.'umininmVnV he will fix 



it for him 



fi-Tc!u^manain'xi he fixed it for 

 me 

 l-'klumana.'iJii fix it for him! 

 3045°— Bull. 40, pt 2—12 10 § 50 



