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KAMCHADAL 



The indefinite (interrogative) pronouns of Kamchadal occur also 

 in predicative form. At present only a few forms of the present 



tense are used. 



Eiika'nejt what are you (sing.) doing? 

 Etika'nejcx what are you (pi.) doing? 

 Iaj6 how are you (sing.)? 

 la'jcfn how are they ? 

 SXU2IJ6 you (sing.) do a certain thing 



nu^n sxu'sijtm Cija'l-lcu'txa^n there the people of Cija'1-kutx 

 live (tiw^^i there; sxu' sij tin i\iQ,y diO a certain thing; -a^/ipluraK 



The use of pronouns or pronominal adverbs is much more com- 

 mon, perhaps due to Russian influence. 



E7ika'nTce Ic/ojd for what do you come? 

 lact mmljt how do you live ? 



Sentences which contain the verbaliz(}d and the nonverbal pronoun 

 also occur, and are probably the result of a mixture of Kamchadal 

 and Russian syntax. 



Erika'j Icimma tE'nijin what now have 1 done to him ? 



E'rikaj E'nin what now has he done to him? 



E'nlcaj Enk.'o'Urnin wh}'- did you (sing.) com 3 to him? 



We find even the following compound of the pronoun with 

 allative post-position and verb : 



Enkanlc!d'lcinin = Enka'Thke klo'Uinin (cf § 59, p. 731) 



There are also two demonstrative verbs: 



tea here te'a-sijk here I am 



Kei look here! he'yisijTc here I am (close to the 



person addressed) 



Both contain the auxiliary verb si (see p. 767). 



§§83-90. Syntactic Use of Tenses and Modes 

 § 83* Declarative Mode 



Declarative forms of the simple, derived, and nominalized forms are 

 used to express the predicate in declarative and interrogative 

 sentences. 



Simple forms: 



fiaivane'ti i'wkwi^ he said to his wife 83.23 

 gi'thin lu^'nin he saw a lake 37.4 



