BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 737 



form has originated from -tku-tih and is parallel to -ikuf thou — us. 

 The g of the intransitive endings disappears in the series of forms 

 THOU — us because its position is intervocalic; for instance — 

 -tku-gi^ becomes -tkui^ 



2. The temporal and modal prefixes are the same as those of the 

 intransitive. 



3. The stems are treated like those of the intransitive verb. 



4. The temporal and modal suffixes enter into compound forms 

 with the pronominal suffixes. The intransitive g is apparently absent, 

 owing to its frequent intervocalic position. 



5. The analogy between the transitive pronominal suffixes and the 

 intransitive sufl5xes is fairly clear, if we consider only those forms 

 which have true pronominal suffixes. We find then the object 



-git thee -miTc us -tile you 



which evidently correspond to the subjects of the intransitive verb. 

 The correspondence is strict for the two plural pronouns: -git may 

 be the older form of the second person intransitive pronoun -gi (pp. 

 719 et seq.; p. 710). 



The third person object shows forms in -n which recall the nominal 

 forms in -in (§§ 45-49), and, like these forms, form their plurals in -et. 

 In a way these forms seem related to the nominal predicate. To the 

 same group belongs the form in -um they — me, which contains the 

 pronoun gum., like the nominal forms. 



Attention may be called to the fact that the number of the pronomi- 

 nal suffix, which designates the object, is naturally determined hy the 

 number of the object. 



qa'at fipe'lanat (Kor. Kam. qoi/a''wge tipe'lanau)l\eit the veindeer 



For the first person object the intransitive form with i7ie- is used. 

 ra^'nutqdi gine'Ud give me something 



The Koryak forms resemble the Chukchee forms. The Koryak 

 dual corresponds to the Chukchee plural. The plural -la- of the 

 Koryak is always placed immediately following the stem. It indicates 

 plurality of subject or object, but occurs once only in each form, even 

 if both subject and object are plural. 



Certain verbal stems may be used both as transitive and as intransi- 

 tive, generally with a slight change in meaning. 



3045°— Bull. 40, pt. 2—12 47 §63 



