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a'nl'ne'V nobody 63.4; 90.8, 25 



a'm^^Vi nothing 58.14; 61.6; 128.23 



we'deneV u's'iV nobody will give it to me (cf. 98.10) 



we'de ¥ai u's'dam do not give me anything 



With the post-nominal -wi'^ every, ¥ai forms Vaiwi'^ everything, 

 SOMETHING. No such form as ^neVwi'^, however, occurs, its place 

 being taken by aldil, aldl all, everybody. In general, it may be 

 said that Vai has more of an independent substantival character 

 than ne¥ ; it corresponds to the English thing in its more indefinite 

 sense, e. g., ¥a'i gwala many things, everything 96.15; 102.11; 

 108.8 



The adverbial correspondent of ¥aiis gwi how? where? 46.2; 

 78.5. In itself gwi is quite indefinite in signification and is as such 

 often used with the forms of na(g)- do, act 47.11 ; 55.7: 



gwi'di nagaif how are you doing? (e. g., where are you going?) 

 86.17; (138.25) 



As interrogative, it is followed by di: 



gwi'dihow^ where? 44.5; 70.6; 73.9; 190.10 



as indefinite, by -8-i^wa'Vdi (cf. 190.4) : 



gwis'i^wa'Vdi in someway, somewhere 54.7; 96.8; 120.21 (also 

 gioi'hap' somewhere) 



as negative indefinite, it is preceded by a'm^ or wede: 



a'r0 gwV- in no way, nowhere 23.6; 62.11; 192.14 

 we'de gwi naY do not go anywhere! 



As indefinite relative is used gvn'ha wheresoever 140.9, 13, 15, 19. 



IV. The Adjective (§§ 106-109) 



§ 106. General Remarks 



Adjectives can not in Takelma without further ado be classed as 

 nouns or verbs, as they have certain characteristics that mark them 

 off more or less clearly from both; such are their distinctly adjectival 

 suffixes and their peculiar method of forming the plural. In some 

 respects they closely approach the verb, as in the fact that they are 

 frequently preceded by body-part prefixes, also in the amplification 

 of the stem in the plural in ways analogous to what we have found 

 in the verb. They differ, however, from verbal forms in that they 

 can not be predicatively used (except that the simple form of the 

 adjective may be predicatively understood for an implied third per- 

 son) , nor provided wdth the pronominal suffixes peculiar to the verb ; 



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