688 (JKAMMAU OF TDE KLAMATD LANGUAGE. 



IV. SYNTACTIC EXAMPLES. 



Wluit follows is a selection of sentences which were omitted while com- 

 posinji' the previous pages of the Granniiar to exemplify grammatic facts. 

 What is dialectic in them is not so much the syntactic structure of the sen- 

 tences as the morphologic and lexical character of the terms occurring in 

 them. Sentences worded in the Klamath Lake dialect are not marked as 

 such, Init those obtained from Modocs are designated by the letter M. 

 When two sentences are combined in the same item, and have the English 

 rendering between them, the former is of the Klamath Lake, the latter of 

 the Modoc dialect. This does not signify that any of the Klamath Lake 

 sentences is unintelligible to the Modocs, or conversely, but that it is their 

 more natin-al mode of utterance. In some of these items the decisive words 

 are arranged alphabetically. 



Distributive rcduplicntion. 



tiimi maklaks a-atini many Indians are tall. (M.) 

 gt^gamtchi shiitka shle'sh gi it looks like these thimjs. ' (M.) 

 wa-utcli;iga i-eipa kiiilanti the dogs scratch in the ground; cf yt'pa. 

 tjitaksni, ish luloktchi pe'lakak shanksh=paki'sh children, bring me each 



one watermelon, quickly. 

 cdshash nat pupanua n^Tiuk ive all drink milk. 

 tarn i kAtkoga nc'p shashtash^okan tkiitka I do you stand with your 



hands in pocket because you feel coldf (M.) 



The future tense. 

 In the third, fourth, and fifth sentence the future form is used impera- 

 tively. 



tarn i nalash tula genuapka? ivill you go with usf 



tiim intch (for i nish) gen sheniiitupk' i-amnash ! tvill you barter beads 



ivith mcf tarn lish i shiyutuApka niish yamnash? 

 ka-i kani hi gatpanuapka nobody is allowed to go there. (M.) 

 shumalu'lasht tchek i nush heme/i-uapk S2}eak only after I have ivrittcn. 

 hii'nk shitk hak {i-\ i hemc'^i-uapk, m;'imantchak gitk, ge-uni hak repeat 



it exactly the same way (lit "you shall speak just only alike to") 



stopping at intervals, and but slowly. 



