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§ 44:, Post- positions of Plurals of Personal Wouns 



The plurals of personal nouns form their locative, allative, ablative 

 (§§ 39, 41), and possessives (p. 709) by adding the stem of the pronoun 

 {i)rg THEY (Kor. Kam. [i]y) to the stem. The allative and ablative 

 forms differ, however, somewhat, from the forms of the independent 

 pronoun. 



stem {i)rg they 



Independent pronoun. SuflRx of plural of 



personal noun. 



— Erik 

 — I'rgupu 



qlauli'rgupu from the people 



oraweLa' rgen belonging to men 



Tina' pErik with Tina'p and his family 



(locative and allative) 

 Tina' pirgen belonging to Tina'p's fam- 

 ily, belonging to Tina'p^ 



Kor. Kam.: 



Pipi'Ma-fiaJwgui Mouse-Woman Pipi'Ma-na'togutiyik by Mouse- 

 Women Kor. 31.1 



Annimaya' t Frost-Man Arinimaya'tiyik by those with 



the Frost-Man Kor. 38.9 



Ai'ginvi With-Qdor- Pushing- Aiginiu'yikin to the people of 

 Away With -Odor -Pushing -Away 



Kor. 63.6 



Quygimi'aqit Big-Raven Qoyginn'agoyikai' bi to the Big- 



Raven's people Kor. 19.9; 

 35.6 



The k in the suffixes of these forms is evidently related to the k 

 which appears in the allative and ablative of the independent pronoun 

 derived from the stem (i)rg (Chukchee), as given in § 56. 



Miti's'hin belonging to Miti Kor, 28.7 

 Quygin7i'aqii'tkin belonging to Big-Raven Kor. 28. 7 



Here Koryak s'h and th are analogous to Chukchee rg. 



1 In cases of this kind the plural is often used to refer to the person himself. 



