600 GKAMMAlt OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



quoted, page 413, the verbal in -ti does not refer to the subject of the main 

 sentence, but to its object. 



D. — The VERBAL INDEFINITE in -she'mi, -SHAM is used just hke an ad- 

 verb, and since no subject is mentioned with it, it refers to the subject of the 

 sentence. It points to tilings done during periods of time having a certain 

 length, and the same suffix, -emi, is frequently found appended to substan- 

 tives. It occurs in passages like 55, 8. 19; 56, 1. and, from 148, 19 we 

 gather the information that it is capable of combining with other case-end- 

 ings into a ternary case-inflection. 



E. — The VERBAL INDEFINITE in -SHI, -SI is remarkable for combining a 

 temporal with a locative function, and for placing its nominal or pronominal 

 subject, which differs from that of the main sentence, into the objective case. 

 It refers to a distinct place or spot where, and to a certain moment when 

 something occurred, and not to a longer lapse of time, like -she'mi. 



ni hu'tpa hihassuaksas htitokt liuka-isi (for liukayash4) by running I 



reached the men while they were gathered there, 22, 4. 

 tsui hutapeno'lshi n's nAyens slilin pli' n nu'sh then, after I had arrived 



there running, another (man) was shot in tJie head, 22, 1 1 ; n's (for 



nish me) being the subject of hutapeno'lshi. 

 ndts a gtipkst (for nalash a gepkasli=i) at shlii'pka Sa'tas tvhen tve arrived, 



they (the soldiers) saiv the Snake Indians, 29, 19; cf. Note. 

 san6tanksi nat sash gatpa while they fought, tve reached (them), 29, 20. 

 Sa't lulk tdwi gatpdnkshkshi (for gatpankshkash i) hii'nk wats the 



Snakes fired at him when he had almost reached the horse, 30, 4. 5, 



and Note. 

 nat guhashktcha shewat^ii'lsi we started in the afternoon, 24, G, and 



Note. 



F. — The VERBAL INDEFINITE in -SHTKA, -STKA, which I call Verbal desid- 

 erative from one of the uses to which it is applied, connects itself with all 

 the inflectional forms of gi to be, but is found almost as often without these, 

 and then has to be considered as incomplete, as stated pages 413 sq. But 

 when the form -shtkak occurs, the form is complete, for the final -k represents 

 the abbreviated -gi. Whenever this instrumental case -tka is appended to 



