This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of any instance have been found to warrant formulation and inclusion here would only tend to confuse the work of Salinan comparisons. Enclitic Pronominal Subject As has before been remarked, the pronominal subject, in independent position and form, normally follows the verb. But in rapid speech tense adverbs and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of any instance have been found to warrant formulation and inclusion here would only tend to confuse the work of Salinan comparisons. Enclitic Pronominal Subject As has before been remarked, the pronominal subject, in independent position and form, normally follows the verb. But in rapid speech tense adverbs and the pronominal subject tend to become abbreviated and to coalesce with the verb stem, forming a complex. Practically, this phenomenon is limited to the first person singular which is abbreviated to-ek. The first personal plural form does not seem to abbreviate to-ak, possibly to avoid confusion with the first personal singular objective pronoun-ak. The forms of the second person, commencing as they do with a consonant, are not susceptible of abbreviation and the third personal pronominal subjective forms are ordinarily not expressed. ctelwa"-l-6 'k-ce I am an old man already tas-k-co'une.-n-6k' but I will kindle it ADVERBS Independent adverbs play an important part in Salinan, owing to the paucity, in the verbal complex, of particles expressing adverbial concepts. Thus most of the locative and temporal relations are PART III. TEXTS The texts following are appended as material illustrative of connected Salinan speech. Interlinear translations are given following as closely as possible the sense and order of the Salinan original, and free translations are appended for a fuller understanding of the context, and because of the interest they bear to mythological and folklore studies. Both the dialects of San Antonio and of San Miguel are represented, the former composing the first part and the majority of the material. The Miguelefio texts were all taken in 1916 from Maria Ocarpia, an elderly woman living at the "reservation" at the foot o...
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