584 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



(1) Two or more co-ordinate sentences contain each a verb in the past 

 tense, one of which the English hxnguage would render by the pluperfect 

 tense : 



siimtsiilxii luVk a gen tawi; tu' tawipk tankt tawi'pk she discov- 

 ered that he had bewitched that man ; that he had heivitched Mm out 

 there; that he had bewitched him at that time, 64, 2. 3. 



tsi'u hil'k na's hukayapk ma'ns i-u'ta thin the one tvho had retired to the 

 woods shot for a lorn) time, 23, 2 1 . 



nd-ans shli'n wii'k he had shot another man in the arm, 24, 1. Cf stfltchna, 

 43. 22; spiini, 20, 18. 



(2) The verb expressing the act previously accomplished stands ni tne 

 presential tense-form, and is connected with the other past tense by means 

 of the particle at, then to be rendered by after, though its original meaning 

 is now, now that. 



lala%i shuggulaggi at, Tchmu'tch hame^e after the ^^ chiefs" had assem- 

 bled. Riddle said, 41, 20. 



hu'yuka sha hii'nk kta-i at, tchi'ii sha muklaks puellu' after they had 

 heated the stones, they threw the people into (the bucket), 112, 21. 



kayuds huk k'lii'kat (for k'leka at) he had not died yet, 24, 6. 



The conjunction at may be accompanied or even supplanted by other 

 temporal particles, as tcluii, tch'hu'nk, dtch'unk (for at tchiii hii'nk. Mod.), 

 tchiiyunk, hil tankt, (Mod.) etc. 



(3) The verb containing the act performed previously to another act 

 may be expressed by one of the verbals. In this case, there is only one 

 finite verb in the sentence, for all the verbals represent nominal forms. 

 The verbals are those in -sh, with their case-forms (-sham etc.), in -uish and 

 in -slit. 



ef%ishtok Mii'shash k'leka Tchashgayak but after (or while) Southwind 



had put his head out, Little Weasel died. 111, 9. 

 ill gdna M()atuash k'liiwisham at away went the Pit River Indians, now 



that (firing) had ceased, 20, T). 



