620 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



sliushiiteloma ti'lish, p'na'sli ktchalxishtka slikuklu;'ipka.slit they smear it 

 on their faces to preserve themselves from possible chapping on account 

 of sunburns, 150, 8. Cf. 135, 8. 



C. — Volition is expressed in a similar manner as possibility, and the lan- 

 guage has no word equivalent to our I will. It may be rendered by shana- 

 lid'li to wish, desire, to tvant, as in 105, 11, a verb for which the Modocs 

 often use hameni; or we find it expressed by the future tense, when it is 

 equivalent to / am resolved, I am willful, or one of the above suppositive 

 particles may be used. All these different means are resorted to to express 

 volition, because the language lacks a real optative mode. 



medshampeli-uapka nu / will remove to the former place again. 



pi a nish tula genuapk he will go with me. 



kci-a mish nu ka-a ni mbushdaluapka very much I ivant you for a husband, 

 182; 7; cf 182; 6. 



nu kam hi'tksh telulit / wish to look dotvn on it from there, 1!)2; 4. 



nu kam tchl'k mish shl(iat I tcish I could see you again, Mod. 



THE OBJECTIVE RELATION. 



Whenever the sentence, composed of subject, predicate, and copula, 

 becomes enlarged beyond this narrowly circumscribed limit, it will soon 

 extend in the direction of its objective relation. The intransitive verb 

 will complement itself by means of some indirect object. Transitive verbs 

 are either objectless or objective ; that is, some of them require no direct 

 object, some do ; and the same may be said of the impersonal verbs. But 

 these three sorts of verbs may all be qualified by indirect objects, which 

 often correspond to the dative and ablative case, or contain locative or tem- 

 poral indications, or have to be expressed by a whole sentence. This gives 

 origin to a compound sentence, of which another chapter will treat. But 

 when the object is expressed by a noun or pronoun, no distinction is made 

 in Klamath between the direct and the indirect object, except under the 

 restriction mentioned below. Several verbs which in English require a 

 preposition before the object are in Klamath connected with the objective 

 case without postposition : kiiila guti'la to enter info the ground; Afshishash 



