INFLECTION OP ADJECTIVES. 507 



Even among the enclitic, unaccented adjectives there are some that will 

 assume the distributive form ; they resume their accentuation whenever 

 they become joined to a noun showing this grammatic form. 



lu'k pupashpush=tkani (gi) the seeds are hlackish, 146, 3. 



keliidsh mamatchma'tchli lalkaya the kelddsh-berries grow blue, 146, 9. 



III. INFLECTION FOR CASE. 



The adjective inflects for case in a shape not very different from that 

 of the substantive, and in both we find forms of the simple and of the com- 

 posite declension. Some of the cases do not occur in every substantive, 

 and still less so in every adjective; the pai'adigms will clearly show this. 

 The linguistic principle effecting alterations like these is that of agfjhit'mation. 



Klamath has a double inflection of the adjectives in -n't, which may be 

 compared in some respects to the one observed in German. Of this double 

 inflection the shorter one is an abbreviation of the longer, showing the syl- 

 lable -an- or -en- before the case-suffix, and both are used almost indiscrim- 

 inately, although the longer one is more expressive. The adjective, when 

 used predicatively, does not differ from the one used attributively, except 

 sometimes by the position in the sentence, and in our texts the use of the 

 adjective in either quality is rather frequent. The followmg examples will 

 §how the position of adjectives used predicatively : 



p'gishap t'shishap ketchkanienash o' gisht wt'ngga (Mod.) mother (and) 



father died ivhen he ivas young, 55, 20. 

 na'sh shul'sh sayuaks hu'mtcha kalak a song having pointed him ant as 



relapsed; lit. "one song having discovered that he is of the kind 



called relapsed", 72, 3. 

 ydmnashptchi lu'loks Ai'shisham, Wandkalam kaka'kli lu'loTcs the fire of 



Aishish was purple-blue, that of Silver Fox tvas yellow, 99, 3. 

 Itip shulshesh mu'meni, s;{utash tchisli lapi ndshekane of gaming sticks 



there are two thick ones, of skin-covered sticks two slender ones, 79, 2. 



Not in every instance does the principle of agglutination unite the 

 adjective closer to the substantive than the English lanp-uage does; but 



