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Tcumi'ntc inctci'tc ci'^ixll he thinks of nothing (else) 60.20, 21 

 Tcimii'oitc^tcb nictci'tc ta'tci tEinu'uts not for nothing did I assem- 

 ble you (here) 30.18, 19. 



oilctx occurs in two instances only, and to all appearances has an 

 interrogative significance. 



nl'ctxan Z:" a'ntsin rnat.'l' tE leu} tcL'nll what may (be the reason that) 



my elder brother here does not come back^ 68.11, 12 

 nlctx Ic^ a'naxa} how (would it be if) he were given up? 64.26 



In a great many cases ni'ctca and nl'ctca are used as verbs with a 

 significance that adapts itself to the sense of the sentence (see § 135). 

 The particles are then verbalized by means of some of the verbal 

 suffixes. 



TdPnt'ctca nl'ctcuinE nothing could he done {to stop) him 94.12, 13 

 Icu'^ nt'ctca tcaltcl'tc ni'ctcll not can anywhere {they) go 76.14 

 Tiumi'ntcxim ni'ctdls not we two (excl.) will Tceep on going 56.2 

 ni'ctcan tsx ntctca'wax I doubt whether (we) are going to do (any- 

 thing) 60.9 

 n%' ctcaV a^x si'n^xyun to fight mutually they two want (it) 52.2 



In one instance the addition of a nominal suflSx has transformed 

 nt'ctca into a noun. 



Icumifntc qwatc hlxu'x^n ni'ctcatc ants ni'cfcisi no one knows what 

 happened to them (literally, how their arrival) 4:0.15, 16 



§ 132, TJie Suffixed Particle -u (a") 

 It indicates an action, transitive or intransitive, that is performed 

 near the speaker, and maj^ be added to stems other than verbal. It 

 always stands in final position as a loose suffix. Since similar forma- 

 tive elements expressing other locative categories were not found in 

 Siuslaw, and in view of the fact that Alsea employs, besides this suffix, 

 many other suffixes denoting location of action, I am inclined to believe 

 that this element represents a formative element borrowed from Alsea. 

 The Siuslaw render it by here, this way. A peculiar phonetic 

 law seems to be intimately connected with this particle. When follow- 

 ing the consonantic cluster nx, it causes the dropping of the x (see § 4). 

 The interchange between u and a" has been discussed in § 2. 



^a"s=- to follow 92.7 Ic^was^yu'tsana^ you will overtake 



me 92.3 

 qa^xiin above 80.12 yvF^h/a'tx qa^xilnvf it broke on top 



94.4 



§ 132 



