506 GRAMMAR OF TBB KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



into numeral, indefinite or pronominal, verbal adjectives, and into adjec- 

 tives designating quality. Only the two latter classes will be considered 

 under this head; the indefinite will be treated under "Pronoun", and the 

 numeral adjective under a separate heading, since numerals are used not 

 only as adjectives, but also as adverbs. 



Adjectives qualify substantives in a similar manner as adverbs qualify 

 verbs. In the language of which we treat the adjectival infiection is not 

 so multiform and elaborate as that of the substantive noun, though this does 

 not impair the clearness of sentences. The suffixes -na, -i, -e'mi do not 

 appear in the inflection of the adjective, and it also lacks special grammatic 

 forms to indicate gradation. 



L GENDER. 



Gender, animate and inanimate, is not distinguished in the adjective, 

 for its principal distinctive mark, the objective case, does not differ in its 

 suffix -.sh, as the following sentences will show : 



nu'mish wushmush shiuga sha they kill a large ox; cf -42, 2 ; 112, 21. 

 atinsh ko'sh guka huk he climbed a tall pine tree. 



watsag mii'menish wawakash ^ixk fox-hound, lit. "dog having long ears." 

 yiinanish pil ma-i pan they eat only the loiver (pail of the) tale reed. 

 palpalish (or palpalsh) shlapsh gitko having a white flower. 

 litchlitchlish steinash gftko .strong -hearted. 



If a distinction was made between the two genders, the above adjec- 

 tives would, except in the first example, appear with the suffix -ni, -li. But 

 another suffix, appearing in this and in other cases, is -a: tiima tua gitko 

 possessing nud/y things. It will be considered further on. 



H. ABSOLUTE AND DISTRIBUTIVE FORM. 



The distributive form derives itself in the same manner from the abso- 

 lute as in the substantive and the verb. It is applied in the same manner 

 and inflected hy the same case -suffixes and case-postpositions as the abso- 

 lute is, under stated restrictions. Whenever reduplication occurs, it ma}^ 

 occur in the noun ami in the adjective, or only in one of the two; in the 

 latter case, it is usually the adjective which assumes the distributive form. 



