PARADIGM OF Gt. 443 



Indefinite: gisli, kl'sh the fad of being, exislence; inflected: gishani, gislii, 

 gi'slitka, etc., the latter being the desiderative verbal, on the point 

 of becoming, being; also gishtka gi, gislitka giug. 



Conditional: glsht, kisht on account of being, for having been. 



Preterit: gi-uish, gfwish 'Hhe having been." 



Causative : giuga, giug for being, because (he, it) is, was: 



Durative: giuta while being (rare). 



Intentional: gitki in order to be, become, exist; periphrastically : gitki gi, 

 gitki giug, gitkiug. 



The verbals of the future tense are as follows: 

 Infinitive : gi-uapka. 

 Indefinite: gi-uapkash, gi-uapksh the fact of "going to be"; inflected: 



gi-uapkshi, gi uapkshtka (giug) etc. 

 Conditional : gi-u;ipkaslit for becoming at a future time. 

 Causative: gi uapkuga, gi-uapkug because (he, it) is going to be. 

 The preterit, durative, and intentional verbals do not exist in this tense; 

 instead of the latter, gitki, gitki gi is used. 



PAKADIGM OF THE A-INFLECTION. 



This paradigm being typical for all the various inflectional forms of 

 the Klamath verb, I present it in all its details, and shall often refer to it in 

 treating of the other inflections, which are to a great extent reproductions 

 of it Some verbs in -na follow the N-inflection. Many forms of the para- 

 digm, especially of the distributive, are not in use on account of their length 

 and unwieldiness, but for the sake of completeness all of them had to be 

 presented. 



The transitive verb ktiika to strike or hit with the hand, to strike ivith the 

 fist or clenched hand, which was selected to serve as a paradigm, becomes in 

 its distributive form ktuktka or ktuktg'a to strike, hit with the hand each object 

 separately, the full form ktiiktaka being syncopated into ktuktka. For the 

 sake of brevity, the addition "with the hand" is omitted. When pe'tchtka, 

 the instrumental case of pe'tch foot (distr, pepatch) is added to kti'ika, it 

 means to kick. The paradigm of ktiika combines throughout the above active 



