630 GRAMMAR OF TUE KLAMATU LANGUAGE. 



elements by contraction. This second stage forms the transition to what is 

 generally called incorporation, and many of the forms produced by fusion 

 are decidedly incorporative, like metsmetsawals ohsidian arroivhead, miulaki 

 head-chief. 



The attributive relation thus presents itself under the following as- 

 pects : 



A. The verb, attributively qualified: 



(a). By an adverb standing separate. 



(V). By an adverb agglutinated to. it as a prefix, and thus forming a 

 compound verb. 



(c). By the agglutination of two verbs into a compound verb. 



B. The noun, attributively qualified: 



(a). By another noun placed before it in the possessive or partitive case. 



{Jb). By another noun forming apposition. 



(r). By another noun, both forming a compound noun. 



{d). By an adjective or numeral. 



A.— THE VERB WITH ITS ATTRIBUTIVE QUALIFICATIOjS\ 



When verlDs become qualified by other terms, these terms are most 

 generally of an adverbial description. They may be either adverbs, or 

 phrases used in an adverbial sense, or separate clauses determining the verb 

 adverbially, that is, in regard to quantity and degree, to space, to time, to 

 quality. These adverbial clauses will be spoken of in a separate chapter 

 as a part of the division "Compound Sentence." Adverbial phrases are 

 composed of two or more words forming but one idea, such as tnpi ti'tna a 

 short time afterward, pa'dshit pshi'n to-niyht, wakaktoksh in the same manner 

 as, tu miina deep down ; while others form tlie rudiments of separate clauses, 

 thougli they have to be considered as locutions or phrases only : humasht 

 gink in that manner, wak a giviga of course, nanuk pshi'n gisht every night. 



(a). Adverb standing separately. 



Of the adverb the usual position in the sentence is before the verb it 

 qualifies, and, therefore, whenever it coalesces with the verb into one word, 



