230 (JliAMMAi; OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



wdltaksli promiscuous talking, for vvaltkash Mod. 



hdslitaksli perforation of carlobe, for lulshtkash . 



fpakt it may stay, remain, for I'pkat, 148, 14. 



wiuliilek! strike it! for wiuldl^' i ! 



In'itan, nge-i«han they ran, they shot, for In'itna, nge-ishna. 



shuliitaniantk being dressed in, for sluiliitanmatko. 



These inverted forms nia)' be explained by metathesis, but it is prob- 

 ably more correct to derive them from supposed forms as kii-akat, shdyua- 

 kash or -kish, wAltakash, hdshtakash, fpakat, wiuli'ilak i ! hi'itana, ngd-ishana, 

 etc., which, under the weight of the receding accentuation or other influ- 

 ences, lost their second vowel (a). This explanation is sustained by forms 

 like ne-ulakuapka, fut. of nd-ul^a to order, which, compared to genuApka, 

 fut. of g^na to go, pekshuapka, fut. of |)c'ksl!a to grind, shows that the end- 

 ing -a of the "infinitive" does not ;ipi)ear in the future, but that the first -a- 

 in n(^-ulakuapka existed there previously, and induces us to presuppose an 

 ancient form ne-ulaka, n^-ula^a. 



19. Anafhesls is a new grammatic term, by which I call a sort of vocalic 

 metathesis, almost entirely confined to derivative verbs and inflec- 

 tional verbal forms with their derivatives. Numerous instances of 

 it are found among the verbs beginning with tlie prefixes sh- and 

 h-sh-. This subject will be developed in full in Morphology, 

 Section: Radical Syllable. 



ACCENTUATION. 



I. LOCATION OF THE ACCENT. 



The accented syllable of a word is uttered with a stronger eff'ort of the 

 voice, and frequently with a higher pitch than the syllables surrounding it. 



Long words have a principal accent and a secondary accent. The 

 only sign used in this volume for accenting syllables is the acute accent, ', 

 as in ibdna, tiipka. 



A curious difference is observed in American languages as we proceed 

 from the South to the North. For in many parts of South America, espe- 

 cially the eastern and northern, the accent is placed towards the end of the 



