BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 779 



Koryak : 



miti'w gecTia'Len Erika'ta tilai'viTcin ne'La next day, after it 

 had dawned, at that place a herd was walking Kor. 21. S 



With nouns the form ga — lin expresses possession (see p. 712.) 



§ 0. Negative Forms 



Negative forms are partly expressed by adverbs with the ordinary 

 forms of the verb, parti}'- by the derivative in e — ka^ which is either 

 nominal or forms nominal predicative terms. The particles which 

 may take the ordinary verbal forms are — 



va'nevan not at all (see p. 882) 



qa'rem always with the future or exhortative (see p. 882) 



baJinam always with the future (see p. 883) 



See also e'Le, en'ne, ui'nd (p. 883). 



The forms in e — led and in egji- will be found discussed on pp. 818, 

 821 et seq. 



In Kamchadal the negative is expressed by the derivative in 

 x'e — hi for intransitive verbs, x'e — hie (see p. 826) for transitive 

 verbs. These are nominal in character. Predicative terms are 

 formed by means of auxiliary verbs. 



x'enu'hi ml'ih I will not eat 

 x'enu'hi hsi'xc do not eat! 



§§ 91-94. Syntactic Use of Nominal Forms 



§ 9i. The Absolute Fortn 



The absolute form of the noun and pronoun is used to express the 

 subject of the intransitive verb, and the object of the transitive verb. 

 Independent pronouns maj^ be added to the verb in this form for the 

 purpose of emphasis. 



Subject of intransitive verb: 



yaai'pu ye'tyi^ ri'rhi from afar a walrus came 8.5 

 hitve'yii i'whvn^ the old walrus spoke 8.14 

 mu'ri . . . inirreyi'lqdtyd^ we shall sleep 9.3 

 rirhanpma' thin jpilqde' rlcin the old walrus dived 9.6 

 re'mhin ni'lqdtyd^n the people shall go 13.12 

 i^'rgi^ re'mlcin the people crossed over 13.13 

 ri'r'Tci ge'phiLin a walrus arrived 8,6 



nite' rmetingin ramTci'yhin the great people are doing acts of vio- 

 lence 11.3 



§§ 90, 91 



