040 GRAMMAR OF TUE KLAMATD LANGUAGE. 



teiices exhibiting the parts of tlie sentence in their natural order run as 

 follows : 



nad lAp mdhiash na'dspjoks ngak tchish hiink shn6kua we caught two 



troiits and nine turtltfi. 

 palpali walwilii'gash ku'shtat huniimeni a white hutterfly flew up on the 

 pine-tree. 



Incident clauses are not incapsulated within the parts of the main sen- 

 tence, as is done sometimes in pjUglisli, but precede or more frequently follow 

 it, no matter whether they contain a verbal or a real, finite verb. This holds 

 good when the object or the attribute is expressed by several words, by a 

 phrase, or by a sentence: 



hii niish M-i matchatka tpi^wash he does not listen to my orders, lit. "he 



to me not listens when ordering." 

 k4-iu Boshtinash gjitpish, Mo'dokni mba-ush shul5'tantko (gi) before the 



Americans arrived the Modocs were dressed in buckskin, 90, 1 (>. 

 nil mish hiink sheshatui watchaga mi'mignish wawakash gipkash / sold 



you a dog having long ears. 

 samtsal^fi Doctor John a g(in tawi she discovered that Doctor John had 



bewitched him, 64, 2 ; cf. 13, 16. 17. 

 tidshewa nu mish gatpisht I am glad that you came. 



There are many agencies which tend to modify the natural sequence of 

 the syntactic elements in a sentence, as outlined above. All of them are re- 

 ducible to rhetoric causes, viz , to greater emphasis laid upon certain words 

 or a whole phrase or sentence. The more important a term or phrase appears 

 to the speaker the more he will seek t9-bring it out by emphasis or transpo- 

 sition. In tlie following examples the narrator desired to lay particular 

 stress upon the word which he has placed j/?r5< ; 



kaknegatko gi mi shulotish ! dirty is your dress! 



lap'ni' sha sh(^llual Walamskt'sas E-ushkni ttvice the Lake peo2>le fought 



the Bogue Biver Indians, 10, 1. 

 161a ;i-i mish nu J believe you, lit. "believe I do you." 



