658 GKAMMAlt OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



tliis is oviclenced only by the pronoun or particle introducing it, not by the 

 position of the words. In the main sentence or apodosis the correlative term 

 is not unfrequently omitted for brevity, especially in conditional sentences. 



hii sliu;ii)kst, tchii nia'lsh ngatuajjk na'hlis if ye will he shot, then to you 

 tvill snap the bowstring, 21, 10. 



tankte n;it hu'nk tatfitG nat suko'lkip'l, tankt sa hiVnk gawal kikaskan- 

 katk lohen tve gathered in a crotcd at that time, then they found him 

 as they ivalked about, 24, 19. 20. 



tiitaktak hiik kalak ma'sha, gii'tak uba-ush ktu'shka as far as the re- 

 lapsed (patient) is infected, just so large a (piece ot) liickskin he cids 

 out, 73, 2. 



The POSITION OF THE WORDS in the incident clause, which forms such a 

 perplexing feature in the grammars of Germanic languages, is identical 

 in Klamath Avith the position of words in the principal clause. The only 

 addition is formed by the conjunction introducing the clause, and if the 

 words are arrayed in another than the usual order, this is done for purely 

 rhetoric reasons. 



The incident clause is not incapsulated within the main or principal 

 sentence, but precedes or more frequently follows it, as pointed out on a 

 previous page, where examples are given. 



Subdivision. — The various kinds of incident clauses necessitate a sub- 

 division of them into classes, and I have classified them under the following 

 headings: 



Conditional clauses. 



Adverbial (temporal, etc.) clauses. 



Relative clauses. 



Indirect questions. 



A. THE CONDITIONAL CLAUSE. 



This clause is formed by a sentence stating the condition or conditions 

 under which the fact or circumstance expressed by the principal clause 

 takes place, and is suboi'dinate to tliis principal clause, whether it stands 

 before or is placed after it. It is con.monly introduced by a conditional 



