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swal grizzly bear 

 (?) huckleberries 



qwo'txa} beaver 

 48.6 



Absolutive Discriminative Objective 



A^^c person 7.1 Uya'tc\Z.\^\ \h.2 UIlH! h^yatcu'wt a 



man-killer 

 tEma^'ya^x hyatdl'ioi a 

 gatherer of people 



swall^.'i tsiLlt! swalyu'wt & 



grizzly-shooter 



ts'xya WkH.'wt taxyu'wt a 



picker of huckle- 

 berries 



qwoa'txa^ 52. 4 tslLlt! qwoatxl'wt a 



beaver-killer 



Another nominalizing suffix that seems to be confined to one stem 

 only ig -as in the noun wa'as language, word, message 34.21, formed 

 from the verbal stem waa- to speak, to talk. 



Reduplication (§§ 106-109) 

 § 106, Introductory 



Reduplication as a factor in the formation of grammatical categories 

 and processes does not play as important a role in Siuslaw as in many 

 other American Indian languages. 



Considered from a purely phonetic point of view, the process of 

 reduplication may affect a single sound, a syllable, or the whole 

 word, while from the standpoint of position of the reduplicated ele- 

 ments it may be either initial or final. In accordance with these pro- 

 cesses, a given language may show the following possible formg of 

 reduplication : Vocalic or consonantic initial reduplication ; consonantic 

 final reduplication, commonl}'^ called final reduplication ; syllabic redu- 

 plication, usually referred to as doubling or reduplication of the sylla- 

 ble; and word-reduplication, better known as repetition of the stem. 



Of the forms of reduplication known actually to occur in the Ameri- 

 can Indian languages, Siuslaw shows only duplication of the (first) 

 sj^llable, duplication of the final consonant, and repetition of the stem. 

 Syllabic duplication occurs rather seldom, final duplication is resorted 

 to frequently, while repetition of the stem plays a not unimportant 

 part in the formation of words. 



Reduplication is confined chiefly to the verb; its use for expressing 

 distribution — a phenomenon commonly found in American Indian 

 languages — is entirely unknown to Siuslaw, which employs this pro- 

 cess solely for the purpose of denoting repetition or duration of action. 



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