BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES^ — COOS 409 



§ 109. Numeral Particles 



T'lc'T BOTH, go^s ALL, liE'TFia ALL, devitf EACH, EVERY, and yEai' 

 ANOTHER, may be called numeral particles. JiE'ma is used to 

 indicate plurality of the object, and immediately follows the 

 verb, while go'^s precedes the verb and usually denotes plurality 

 of the subject (see § 18). 



goH wdndj il Lld'xEm they all that way talk 50.9, 10 



xgo^s md la^ kwad'myahd'ya all people came to know it 102.29 



TjJc'Ui-vnta hE'ma 1 overtook them all 



alqsd'ya hifma he is afraid of them all 



denk' Jclwl'lis every night 82.9 



halt! yEai' x'ne'^'tits qa'xantc now another one jumped upwards 



76.3, 4 

 halt! yEai' md Lowi'tat now another man runs 78.28 



I'k'l expresses the idea of duality in both subject and object of the 

 sentence. 



I'h'l to'hits he hit both of them 114.4 

 /qe I'Jc'l dead (are) both 120.5 

 Ih'l iks tela' at both walked 120.19 



§ 110. Conjunctions 



Coos has a number of stems that must be classed as conjunctions. 

 The following may be regarded as such: 



h%s also hats just 



ta and tso now, then 



^ when, as, since, while 



lits and ta serve as copulas between nouns and sentences. 



his xd c^a'lctet also she is working 22.26, 27 



kwad' nlyahaf ya Idx hd'hdtc his Idx eFndtc his lax e'h^Ldtc (they) 



came to know it, her elder brother, also her mother, also her 



father 86.22, 23 

 sqats ta tdiodle'tc hlxant he caught and into the fire he threw him 



104.15 



t connects subordinate clauses with the principal clause. 



d'ya il iluwe'Hcis i la^ Ik'.wa'k^ Ie xd°'p he was tired (waiting), 



while it was running down, the water 17.3, 4 

 laqtsd^'wat i djl he waited, as he came 118.9, 10 

 i la^ sqats la^ xdhl'ye la^ Id when one seizes it, it belongs to him 



(literally, when that one seizes it, that one becomes he [to 



whom] that thing belongs) 92.22 



§§ 109-110 



