240 GKAMMAR OP THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



words the accent may then settle upon a prefix; when the term becomes 

 lengtliened by suffixation, the accent may shift towards its final syllables. 

 Examples: 



hcshla to show itself, from slik-a to see. 



hishlan to shoot at each other, from shlin to sJwot. 



lakiAmkshi at the chief's house, from laki chief. 



shuktampka to begin f(/hting, from shuka to fight. 



yamatala eastward, from yamat east. 



tataksnfptchi childlike, from tataksni children. 



skukliuipkasht from possible chapping, from ski'ikla to be chapped. 



In the four last examples the secondary accent has entirely eclipsed 

 the accent originally laid on the radical syllable. 



Oxytonized terms, as gulf and others given above, will not shift their 

 accent unless increased by two or more sjdiables. 



When a word of more than one syllable is increased by distributive 

 reduplication, the accent will usually shift away from the initial syllable 

 by the length of this increase: 



hiklxa to shatter, split, d. hilu'iklxa. 



ngumshka to breal:, fracture, d. ngumgamshka. 



l6mewfl;i^a to drift away, d. l6melemewil%a. 



ulAksha to lap, lick, d. ula-ulaksha. 



Instances where the accent gravitates back upon the beginning of the 

 word, respectively upon the radical syllable through apocope, contraction, 

 or elision : 



m^ssam in the trout-season, for mehiashii'mi. 



pallapksh the stolen one, for palUpkash. 



k'la ksh telshdmpka to be moribund, for k'lekapkashtala telshampka. 



The appending of enclitic pronouns and particles, which form a pho- 

 netic whole with the term governing them, sometimes effects a shifting of the 

 accent, but at other times has no effect whatever. Examples of shifting: 



na-ulapkuapka, m's ni I shall punish you, 59, ?>. 



stildsamp6l6k sas in order to (Diiiniincc to them, 22, 15. 



