PHILOLOGY, ETC. 



No. 169. CALLAWAY, MORGAN, JR. The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon. Octavo, xin-f- 



339 pages. Published 1913. Price $5.00. 



In this work Professor Callaway gives a detailed history of the Infinitive in 

 Anglo-Saxon and treats of some substitutes therefor. The study is based upon a 

 statistical reading of the whole of Anglo-Saxon literature with the exception of 

 the glosses and of a few out-of-prints; moreover, in all of the more definitely known 

 translations, the Latin originals have been read. The statistics are given clearly 

 and are complete except for the predicative infinitive with auxiliary verbs, the full 

 tabulation of which seemed unnecessary. Fifteen chapters of interpretation are 

 based upon this material. A long chapter is added on "The Infinitive in the Other 

 Germanic Languages," which of necessity rests upon the investigations of others, 

 but which will, it is believed, be found something more than a summary. The 

 bibliography makes no pretensions to exhaustiveness, but is fuller than any hitherto 

 published in this field. It is thought that the monograph will appeal to students 

 of Germanic syntax scarcely less than to students of English syntax, for the work 

 is written throughout from the comparative standpoint. 



No. 134. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. The Polynesian Wanderings. Tracks of the 

 Migration deduced from an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Con- 

 tent of Efate and other Languages of Melanesia. Octavo, vm-)-516 

 pages, 2 plates. Published 1911. Price $3.50. 



Two theories of the origin of the brown Polynesian race of the Pacific are 

 here discussed, the Semitic and the Malayan theories respectively. It has been 

 essayed to dispose of these definitely by the methods of comparative philology. To 

 that end the author has amassed all available data from all the Polynesian lan- 

 guages and from 150 used in Melanesia and 50 Indonesian tongues ; he has discussed 

 their phonetic mutations and therefrom has pronounced against each of these 

 theories. Dealing with the Polynesians as a pre-Malayan population of Indonesia, 

 he shows that the race advanced upon the Pacific in two swarms separated by a wide 

 interval of time. Confining his investigation to the earlier swarm, at or about the 

 beginning of the present era, he outlines two streams of migration parted at the 

 outset by the obstacle of New Guinea and not brought into association until their 

 arrival in Nuclear Polynesia. As a contribution to the philology of the isolated 

 tongues it is indicated that these studies set us at a point of examination but nar- 

 rowly removed from the genesis of one of the languages of human speech. 

 No. 154. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Beach-la-mar: The Jargon or Trade Speech 

 of the Western Pacific. Octavo, 54 pages. Published 1911. Price $0.50. 

 This work is directed toward two ends. The preservation of the vocabulary is 

 expected to afford material for those students who may be attracted to the prosecu- 

 tion of research upon jargons as underlying the artificial languages in general, a 

 theme as yet untouched in philological examination. The discussion of the gram- 

 mar of this crude means of communication has a value of its own as a preliminary 

 step in the consideration of the grammar of isolating speech, a study essential to 

 the establishment of the newer philology based upon the most primordial stage of 

 the evolution of human speech. 



No. 174. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Easter Island, Rapanui Speech, and the Peopling 

 of Southeast Polynesia. Octavo, 340 pages. Published 1912. Price $2.75. 

 Herein have been assembled the word-lists of all former students of Easter 

 Island, the French vocabulary compiled by Pere Hippolyte Roussel, the words 

 recorded by Geiseler, Thomson, and Cook, together with the author's own collec- 

 tions. To this material has been added the necessary philological apparatus where- 

 with to make this the first dictionary of the speech of this remote outlier of the 

 Polynesian race. Prefaced to the dictionary is a discussion of the various languages 

 of southeastern Polynesia, namely, those of Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Paumotu, and 

 Mangareva. This material has been employed to dissociate the several streams of 

 Polynesian migration which have moved eastward from Samoa under the helio- 

 tropic impulse which has ever been active in this great movement of folk migration. 



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