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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



INFERENTIAL 



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PRESENT IMPERATIVE 



FUTURE IMPERATIVE 



Singular: 



Second person 



ha'n^sga^m 



lesgi'k'wlip' ga^ra 



s-a's-anp'ga^i 



wip'ga^m 



Those verbs of tliis class that are characterized, either throughout 

 their forms or in all non-aorist forms, by a suflBxed p' have this ele- 

 ment coalesce with the -p' of the first person plural, inferential, and 

 imperative, but with lengthening of an immediately preceding vowel. 

 In the imperative this lengthened vowel seems to take on a falling 

 accent : 



flala'^^p tell a myth! (cf. plala'p'de^ I shall tell a myth, with 



inorganic second a) 

 sandf°-p fight! (cf. sana'pde'^ I shall fight, with radical second a) 



The verb wog- arrive is peculiar in that the aorist is formed after 

 the manner of Class II verbs {wok'' he arrives 47.15; woFdam you 

 ARRIVE), while the non-aorist forms belong to Class I (e. g., woga'H' 

 HE WELL ARRIVE). It is further noteworthy that many, perhaps 

 most, Class II intransitives form their usitative and frequentative 

 forms according to Class I. Examples, showing the third person 

 aorist catch, are: 



s'u'^alha^ they always dwell 112.2 (from s'u^wili 21.1; but first 

 person plural s'u'^aThibW) ; contrast Class II s'as'a'nhap he 

 keeps standing (from s'as'inl 34.1) 

 wogowa'^V they keep arriving 112.2 (from wd¥) 

 s'o^wo^s'a^^ they keep jumping (112.5,10) (from s'owd'^^Fap' 

 48.15) 

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