548 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATU LANGUAGE. 



INFLECTION OF THE ABBREVIATED PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 



The position of the full-toned, vocalic personal pronouns in the sen- 

 tence is before as well as after the verb, but the position of the abbreviated 

 personal pronouns is usually, though not necessarily, after it. These become 

 enclitic or proclitic syllables, and are pronounced so rapidly that, after losing' 

 the word-accent, many of them also lose the vowel through syncope or aj^o- 

 cope. Subject-pronouns suffer abbreviation as well as object-pronouns and 

 dissyllabic forms. A single instance of aphgeresis is observed in ish for nish 

 me, to me. Pronouns of the second person stand before those of the first 

 when one of them or both are abbreviated. 



a- before a pronoun is the declarative particle a. Initial i-, as in insh for 

 nish, results from vocalic metathesis. The abbreviated subject-pronoun -n 

 can disappear altogether. 



Compare with all this our conjugational specimens given above (pages 

 240-243, 418), in which ilie abbreviated pronouns are seen united almost 

 into one word with the verb. No real incorporation of the pronouns into the 

 verb takes place, however, for the same pronouns can in every instance be 

 pronounced sei^arately and with their full accentuation. 



nil, ni : n, -n, an. 



nish: ish, ansh, insh, n's, ns, -sh. 



niish: n'sh, ansh, n's, ns, -sh. 



mish : m'sh, m's, msh, ms. 



p'n4: p'na, m'na. 



p'natant : p'nata, p'nat ; m'natant : m'nat. 



nat: na, -nt, nilt. 



na'lash : nii'lsh, nash, natch, na'ts, nads, nas ; Mod. na'l, nal. 



raalash : ma'lsh ; Mod. ma'l, mal. 



p'milash : p'na'sh, pa'ntch ; m'nalash : m'nalsh. 



sha, sa: -sh, -s, -tch. 



Instances of the above abbreviations appear in the following sen- 

 tences : 



Mp su'ndin lapukayans ilhi I lock both up for two tveeks, 61, 19. 



