184 BUEEATJ OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



5, Auxiliary and Subordinating Forms (§§ 68-72) 



§ 68. PERIPHRASTIC FUTURES 



Periphrastic future forms are brought about by prefixing to the 

 third personal (unexpressed) objective forms of the aorist stem 

 -gulug'"- DESIRE, INTEND the verb-stem (if transitive, with its appended 

 pronominal object) of the verb whose future tense is desired. The 

 pronominal subject of such a form is given by the transitive subject 

 pronoun of the second element {-gulug'^-) of the compound; while 

 the object of the whole form, if the verb is transitive, is coincident 

 with the incorporated pronominal object of the first element. The 

 form of the verb-stem preceding the -gulug^- suffix is identical with 

 the form it takes in the inferential. Thus: 



ha-i-liema'Tc'uluW^ he will take it out (cf. inferential ha-i-he- 

 ma'F =-heing-¥) , but imperative hor-i-lie^mV 16.10 



but, without inorganic a: 



l-hemguluW^ he will wrestle with him (cf. inferential JiemTc) 



Indeed, it is quitelikely that the main verb is used in the inferential 



form, the -¥ of the inferential amalgamating with the g- of -guiug'^- 



to form g or Y. This seems to be proved by the form: 



loho'lc -di-gulugwa^t'^ do you intend to die? {di== interrogative par- 

 ticle) 



Morphologically the verb-stem with its incorporated object must 

 itself be considered as a verb-noun incorporated as a prefix in the 

 verb -gulug'^- and replacing the prefix gel- breast of gel-gulugwa'^n 

 I DESIRE it 32.5, 6, 7. Alongside, e. g., of the ordinary future 

 form do^ma'n i shall kill him may be used the periphrastic 

 do^m-gulugwa'^n literally, i kill (him)-desire, intend. This latter 

 form is not by any means a mere desiderative (i desire to kill 

 him would be expressed by do'^Tnia' gel-gulugwa'^n [ =to-kill-him 

 i-it-desire1) , but a purely formal future. Similarly, dumxi-gulu^V" 

 is used alongside of the simpler dUmxinJc' he will kill me. As a 

 matter of fact the third personal subjective future in -gulu'Y" is 

 used about as frequently as the regular paradigmatic forms here- 

 tofore given: 



yana'-Fulu'F'* he will go (128.9) 

 sana'f-guluW'' he will fight (cf. 48.10) 



yomo'Fwagulu^F^ she was about to catch up with him 140.18 

 alxl'^xbi-gulu'V^ he will see you 

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