BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES SIUSLAWAN 575 



tOV- to buy tsa'ntai tvfha sVn^xyun if you to 



buy want her 74.8 

 waa'- to speak 7.1 H waa' and he said 12.10 



In one instance the quality of this weak vowel has been assimilated 

 to that of the stem-vowel. 



tqul- to shout 92.6 mita'tc^ax ants tqulu' waa' their 



(dual) father, that one shouted 

 (and) said {tqu'lu instead of 

 tqu'la) 52.8 



The Pronoun (§§ 113-115) 

 § 113. The Independent Personal Pronouns 



The independent personal pronouns occur primarily in two forms, 

 according to whether the}^ are used as subjects or objects of an action; 

 but, owing to the fact that from the subjective pronouns there is 

 obtained by means of the prefix q- (see § 21) a discriminative form, 

 the independent personal pronouns may be said to have three dis- 

 tinct forms — the discriminative, subjective, and objective or loca- 

 tive sets. Both the discriminative and subjective pronouns refer to 

 the subject of the sentence, differing, however, in so far as the former 

 applies to subjects of transitive actions, while the latter is used mostly 

 in connection with intransitive verbs. The discriminative form, more- 

 ovei'j is employed whenever the sentence absolutely requires that sub- 

 jectivity of action be indicated (see §§ 21, 111). To be sure, cases 

 where the subjective pronouns are used with transitive verbs are by 

 no means rare. 



Siuslaw, like so many other Indian languages, has no distinct pro- 

 noun for the third person singular, this person being supplied by the 

 demonstrative pronouns s^d, s^ahm., s^as (see § 115). The first person 

 dual has two separate forms, one for the inclusive (I and thou), and 

 the other for the exclusive (I and he). Similarly, in the first per- 

 son plural are distinguished the inclusive (I and ye) and exclusive (I 

 and they). 



These pronouns perform the function of a whole sentence, and may 

 be rendered by I, thou, he, etc., am the one who. . . . 



§ 113 



