PREPOSITIONS, ad, 
When two negative verbs are connected by a conjunction, the first 
may be without the sign of negation; as, kakipe éa iyotay tanka sni (he- 
surpassed and more great not) he neither surpassed nor was the greatest. 
INTERROGATIVE. 
§ 184. 1. ‘He’ is the common interrogative particle, and is placed at 
the ae of the sentence; as, wiéayada he, dost thou believe ? 
2. When the person spoken to is at a distance, ‘hwo,’ compounded of 
‘he’ and ‘wo,’ is used; as, toki da hwo, whither art thou going? This last is 
not used by females. 
3. Sometimes ‘ka’ is employed instead of ‘he,’ as the sign of interroga- 
tion; as, he taku hogan ka, what kind of fish is that? 
4. Sometimes, however, the interrogation is distinguished only by the 
tone of voice. Unlike the English, the voice falls at the close of all inter- 
rogative sentences. 
ADVERBIAL INCORPORATED PARTICLES. 
§ 185. As has been stated (§ 34), by means of adverbial particles, large 
classes of active verbs are formed from verbal roots and adjectives. There 
are ‘ba,’ ‘bo,’ ‘ka,’ ‘na,’ ‘pa,’ ‘ya,’ and ‘yu,’ with the possessive forms ‘hd,’ 
‘kd,’ and ‘el,’ which are prefixed or agelutinated. See the Verb Paradigm. 
PREPOSITIONS. 
§ 186. Prepositions are placed after the nowns which they govern, and 
so are properly post-positions. 
(a) Some are written as separate words (§ 89); as, maka kin akan, on 
the earth; tipi iéahda, by the house; éoynkaske ekta, at the garrison. In this 
ease plurality of the noun is expressed by ‘wica’ incorporated into the 
preposition; as, tatanka kin widikiyeday (ox the them-near-to), near to the 
oxen; Dakota ewiéatanhan, from the Dakotas. 
(b) Other prepositions are suffixed to nouns (§ 91); as, tijtata, on the 
prairie; magata at the field; Gayyata, at the woods. 
(c) And others are prefixed to the following verb (§ 92); as, amani, 
to walk on; iGekiya, to pray for. 
2. (a) Pronouns governed by a preposition are sometimes prefixed to 
it, in which case those prepositions which have ‘i’ for their initial letter 
cause an elision of the last vowel of the pronoun; as ikiyeday, near to; 
mikiyeday, near to me; itehay, far from; nitehay, far from thee. If the pro- 
