GRAMMAR OF THE YUKAGHIR LANGUAGE 137 



Post-Positions. 



§ 123. All post-positions, which take the place of preposi- 

 tions, might just as well be called '* case-post-positions," like the 

 suffixes enumerated in connection with the declension of nouns 

 (see § i). Post-positions differ from the latter in that they are 

 not used in connection with a possessive element, and that most 

 of them may take on case-suffixes. The latter circumstance is 

 not so characteristic, however, since n-e, comitative case, is used 

 as a separate word, irdga ("together"), and the case-suffixes 

 gety gen, gete, are derivatives from the locative ge. As may be 

 seen from examples, post-positions are sometimes put after 

 oblique cases of nouns. 



§ 124. The following are the post-positions. 



yola' , yola' n after, 



behind. Met-yola' after, behind me. 



biidi'e on top, upon, 



on. 

 budi' eu on, over the 



surface. 

 budi' ef" from under 



the surface. 

 al under. met-al under me. 



at from under. lebie'-n-at u'koc came out from under the ground. 



ala' near. nu' ino-d-ala' near the house. 



ca'ide across. ?/;z/^'?2^<?-^«'/^<? across the river, u' jtttn {rivtr) 



"^ ge is in the locative case. 



yekli'e behind. ^m'vionyekli'e behind the house. 



mekli'e in front. ti' fiun-vieklie at this side of the river. 



letiox the sake, is a verbal adverb of the verb Ic (*' be "), and is 

 put after the dative. 



met eci' ehin-lef- kole'ce I for the sake of father came. 



ele-cu'on without. E' le (the adverb of the denial 710) 



is put before the noun. 

 Ti'tel e'le-me't-cu'on xo'nni They without me went away. 



§ 125. The Yukaghir language has no conjunctions; but 

 some pronouns in oblique cases are used instead. For instance. 



^ Tu'del^ 7iu'me-budi'eino' doi he sits on the house. 



