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§ 63. Transitive Subject Pronouns 

 The various tense-modal schemes of subject pronouns in the tran- 

 sitive verb are as follows : 



Singular: 



First person . . 



Second person 



Third person . . 

 Plural: 



First person . . 



Second person 



Aorist 



■dam (1st sing, 

 obj.) 



Future 



■{a)nak' 



■dap' (1st sing, 

 obj.) 



-(o')n 



-da^ (1st sing, obj.) 



-(a^)nfc' 



-(ji)naga'm 



-{a')t'ha^ 



-daba^ (1st sing, 

 obj.) 



Inferential 



-t'-a« 



H- 



^eW 



-V 



k'-anak' 

 ■k' ^e'lt'p' 



Present 

 imperative 



-(a) ba'^ 



\-P' 

 l-(a)np' 



Future 

 imperative 



Ha'yk- 



]-ga^m (1st sing, 

 i obj.) 



Setting aside the peculiar second personal subject first personal 

 singular object terminations, it will be observed that the subjective 

 forms of the transitive are identical with those of the intransitive 

 (Class I) except in the first person singular and plural aorist and 

 future, and in the third person aorist and future. The loss in the 

 future of the catch of the first person singular aorist {~fe^: fe^ = 

 -^n: -n) and the addition in the future of -am to the first person 

 plural aorist {-i¥: -igam = -nak\' -nagam) are quite parallel phe- 

 nomena. It will be observed also that the first person plural, 

 probably also singular, aorist of the transitive, is in form identical, 

 except for the mode-sign -¥-, with the corresponding form of the 

 inferential, so that one is justified in suspecting this tense-mode to 

 consist, morphologically speaking, of transitive forms with third 

 personal object (see § 60, first footnote). 



The forms of do^m- (aorist tlomom-) kill will show the method of 

 combining subjective and objective pronominal elements. 



AORIST 



1 Not to be confused with tfomoxant'p' ye are killing each othee! 



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