BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — TAKELMA 201 



e'me^ (1) daba'^x (2) di (3) ^ei^a (4) yu^¥ (5) are (5) canoes (4) 

 (to be found) only (2) here (1) ? (3) 114.7 (i. e., why do you 

 bother me about ferrying you across, when there are plenty of 

 canoes elsewhere?) 



ga (1) dV (2) pla^'^nf (3) gaiFa^ (4) so that (1) was their 

 livers (3) that I ate (4) ? (2) 120.14 says Grizzly Bear, who 

 imagined she had eaten not her children's, but Black Bear's 

 children's, livers, on discovering her mistake 



A peculiar Takelma idiom is the interrogative use of gwl^ne when, 

 HOW LONG followed by wede and the inferential, to denote a series of 

 repetitions or an unbroken continuity of action. Examples are : 



gwi^ne (1) di' (2) wede (3) walk' (4) he kept on sleeping 



(literally, when [ 1] did he not [3] sleep [4] ?[2]) 142.11; 152.24 

 gwi^ne' (1) di (2) wede (3) lio'V (4) he ran and ran (hterally, 



how long [1] did he not [3] run [4] ? [2]) 78.14. 

 gwi^ne (1) di' (2) wede (3) dd¥am (4) he kept on being found, 



they always stumbled upon him again (literally, when [ 1] was 



he not [3] found [4] ?[2]) 110.15 



Similar psychologically is the non-negative future in: 



ge'me^di (1) Tiono^ (2) al-dd^gi^nk' (3) they never found him 

 again Git., when[l] will they find him [3] agam?[2]) 190.25 



6, JS^om^inal and Adjectival Derivatives (§§ 73-83) 



§ 73. INTRODUCTORY 

 Although such derivatives from the verb-stem as infinitives and 

 nouns of agency should logically be treated under the denominating 

 rather than the predicative forms of speech, they are in Takelma, as 

 in most other languages, so closely connected as regards morphology 

 with the latter, that it is much more convenient to treat them imme- 

 diately after the predicative verb-forms. The number of nominal 

 and adjectival forms derived from the Takelma verb-stem is not 

 very large, comprising infinitives or verbal nouns of action, active 

 and passive participles, nouns of agency, and a few other forms whose 

 function is somewhat less transparent. The use made of them, how- 

 ever, is rather considerable, and they not infrequently play an 

 important part in the expression of subordinate verbal ideas. 



§ 74. INFINITIVES 



Infinitives, or, as they are perhaps better termed, verbal nouns, 

 may be formed from all verbs by the addition of certain suffixes to 

 the stem or stem + pronomiual object, if the verb form is transitive. 



§ 73-74 



