THE INDIKEGT OBJECT. 623 



Pronouns serving to express a direct object are sometimes suppressed 

 in the conversational form of language, whenever they can be easily sup- 

 plied by the hearer from what precedes. 



tsiii sa lu'luagsla then they made captives; supply: shash them, 19, 16. 

 sha shiuga they killed; supply hu'nksh her, 123, 7. 



In 40, 5 it is uncertain whether the object nish belongs to ndiulaksht as 

 direct object, or to ginti'ltak they will lie under me, as indirect object. 



Reciprocal and reflective verbs bear their pronominal direct object 

 within themselves, since it is embodied in the prefixes sh- and h- sh-. Long 

 lists of these verbs are given in this Grammar, pages 278, 279, 285, 296, 

 423-425. The majority of the prefixes give a hint at the form, quality, or 

 number of their direct objects, but these have to be expressed by separate 

 words to make the reference intelligible. Thus luyega nii means I pick 

 up one round object, and pe-uyega many of them, but lewash hatt or tala 

 dollar-coin have to be added to determine the kind of the object or objects 

 which were picked up by me. 



C. Verbs as objects. — When the direct object is expressed by a verb, 

 this verb will either be the verb of a separate sentence, and then the sen- 

 tence itself is in fact the object, not the verb alone; or the verb will assume 

 tlie form of a verbal indefinite in -sh or that of a verbal intentional. This 

 can bf done only when the finite verb of the sentence belongs to certain 

 classes, the jjarticulars to be found under "Verbal Indefinite," pages 410- 

 413, 596-598, and "Verbal Intentional," pages 416-417, 609-610. 



These matters have been anticipated and described under "Predicative 

 Relation." 



THE INDIRECT OBJECT. 



Every verb may take to itself an indirect object or complement, and, 

 when the sentence requires it, two or more of these may be governed by 

 one and the same verb. The fact that the objective case is one of the forms 

 to express the indirect -object and also the direct object proves that this 

 case is not really a grammatic or relational case, but has an admixture of a 

 material, or, we might say, locative function. The indirect object is in its 



