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agas'i^ yo^lcI^afV yd'"' xu'ma-s'i^ a'nl^ de^ugil's'i now my-bones 

 just (I was) (i. e., I was reduced to a skeleton), food-and not 

 she-gave-me-to-eat 186.1 



agas'i^ a'nl^ Tnl'^wa al-t!eye'xi naga'^^ yuluimfa' aga's'i^ xamY wa- 

 iwl'^ m¥ dl-tlaijdVwa on-one-hand "Not probably she-has-dis- 

 covered-me," he-said Eagle- for-his-part, but Grizzly-Bear girl 

 now slie-had-discovered him 124.9 



gas'i^ and agas'¥ as syntactic elements are not to be confused 

 with the demonstratives ga and aga to which a connective -s'i^ 

 happens to be attached. This is shown by: 



ga-s'i'^ ga^al that-so for ( = so for that reason) 



where ga^al is a postposition to ga. There is notliing to pre- 

 vent post-nominal -s'i^ from appearing in the same clause: 



aga's'i^ mels'i^ but Crow-in-her-turn 162.14 

 When suffixed to the otherwise non-occurring demonstrative H- 

 (perhaps contained in ida- that) it has a concessive force, 



DESPITE, ALTHOUGH, EVEN IF 60.1: 



H's'i^-hi s'om ga^al ha-de-dllfa wlf a'nV- al-tlaya'Y jyliyi^n 

 although-indeed mountam to everywhere he-went, not he- 

 found deer 43.6 



i's'i^ ts!aya^¥ a'nl^ t.'omom guxdagwa although he-shot-at-her, not 

 he-killed-her his-own-wife 140.17 



-hi^ (see no. 3) or connective -s'i^ may be added to H's'i^, the 

 resulting forms, with catch dissimilation (see § 22), being H's'%h/if 

 and H's'is'i^ 47.11; 148.12. When combined with the idea of 

 unfulfilled action, the concessive Hs'i^ is supplemented by the 

 conditional form in -¥i^ of the verb: 



H's'i^ Fa'i gwala ndxbiyauVi^, wede ge liHuaY even-though things 

 many they-should-say-to-you (i. e., even though they call you 

 names), not there look! 60.3 



Compounded with -si^ is the indefinite particle: 

 5. -S'Pwa'k'di 64.5. When appended to interrogatives, this parti- 

 cle brings about the corresponding indefinite meaning (see 

 § 105), but it has also a more general syntactic usage, in 

 which capacity it may be translated as perchance, it seems, 



PROBABLY : 



ma's-i^wa¥di lienenagwaY perhaps (or probably) you ate it 

 all up 26.17 



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