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Inasmuch as infinitives, being nothing but nouns in form, may take 

 possessive affixes, forms may easily result that combine a transitive 

 object and a possessive pronoun; e. g., domxhiyafF my (-f¥ scheme 

 III § 92) KILLING YOU (-hi-), FOR ME TO KILL YOU (cf. yexbiyaxdeV 

 MY BITING YOU 116.9; -x-de¥ scheme ii § 92). The classification of 

 verbs into classes is reflected also in the infinitive forms, each of the 

 three main classes being distinguished by a special infinitive suffix. 

 The suffixes are: 



Intransitive I -{a^)x. 



Intransitive II -¥wa (-gwa). 



Transitive -ia (-ya) . 



The peculiar sub-classes that were grouped together as Class IV 

 all form their infinitives in -Ywa (-gwa). Besides these three main 

 suffixes, -(d) epx- (-apx-) with possessive suffixes is employed to form 

 infinitives from reflexives in -gwi-, while active intransitives in -xa- 

 form their infinitives by employing the bare stem-form with verbal 

 derivative -xa. Infinitives in -xa'Tcwa also occur. The infinitive 

 often shows the stem in a purer form than the non-aorist finite 

 forms; in particular the non-aoristic -p'- of Class II intransitive verbs 

 regularly disappears before the -gwa of the infinitive. 



Examples of infinitives are: 



1 . From Class I intransitives : 



walxde^ your sleeping yana^x to go 



Id^-dawVx to fly up hoida'^x to dance 



Tiogwa^x to run lo^x to play 31.7 



^/e^wa^x to play shinny na^ne^x doing 94.10; 72.4; 



148.13 

 ne'x saying 108.16; 184.10 gina^x to go (176.8) (from sim- 



ple base gin-; contrast third 

 person future ging-a'H') 



Stems ending in long diphthongs either take -x or -ax. Thus we 

 have either 7ia-yeu-x-dd°'da or 7ia-ye^w-a'x-dd°^da in their 



RETURNING 124.15. 



2. From Class II intransitives: 



Ywd'^'^xgwa to wake up (in- t\gelxgwa to run around, roll 



transitive) 

 geiwa'lxgwa to eat ha-i-di' n^xgwa to march 



IdYwa to become s'a's-anVwa to stand 



p.'ala'Vwa to tell a myth sana'Vwa to fight 



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