GRAMMAR OF THE YUKAGHIR LANGUAGE 



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he house his (see §8), = his house 

 they house their = their house, 



but not after a possessive pronoun in the third person, 



tu' del^ 7iumo'-gi 

 ti'tel'' niimo' -gi 



Tu'de (see § 55) mi' nio his house. 



ti'te (see § 55) nu' mo their house. 



§ 1 1. In obhque cases the inflexion expressing the possessive 

 element for the third person is introduced between the base and 

 the case-suffix (see §12). 



§ 12. The following table of case-suffixes may be thus com- 

 piled : 



Suffixes. 



Case. 



Indefinite. 



^ £. . With the Possessive Element 

 Uetinite. | ^^^ ^j^^ ^^j^^ Person. 



Nominative 



Base 



k, X, lek, lox or 



gi 







k^ , x', /e/c', /ox' deriin 



Dative 



nin 







Locative 



ge or go 





dege or dogo 



Vialis 



gen or gon 





degen or dogon 



Ablative 



get^ 01 got^ 





deget' or dogot' 



Accusative 



e, le, lo 



k, X, lek, lox or gi or gele, golo, degele 

 k', x', lek', lox' 1 



Instrumental 



le or lo 





dele or dolo 



Comitative 



we 





den-e 



Comparative I 



gete, goto 





degete or dogoto 



Comparative II 



tite 







Temporal 



vie 







§ 13. The definite suffixes of the nominative and accusative, 

 though performing the function of the definite article of European 

 languages, do not exactly correspond to them in sense. They 

 are used as a reply to the questions Who or what ? Whom or 

 what ? if the question relates to the object, and not to the action. 

 The abbreviated form k and x is used when the noun has a 

 modifier ; for instance : 



Ki'ntek' kelul'? 

 Coro' mo-lok' ke' lid' 

 Omo'ce coro'mo-x' ke'ltil' 



Who came ? 



The or a jfia?i came. 



The or a good man came. 



