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THE SUPPOSED FOX WORD nepijdtcdnandWAg' 



A supposed Fox word nepydtcdndndWAg^ i have come to take them 

 AWAY is cited in section 28 of the Algonquian sketch in the Handbook 

 of American Indian Languages. The analysis there given makes -a- 

 occur in the wrong position; and there can be no doubt the word is a 

 mistake for nepydtcitcdndndwAg^, J. 50.22, in which ted is an incorporated 

 particle; see pp. 472, 473 of the American Anthropologist, N. S., vol. 

 XV, and pyd- and nd- in section 16 of the sketch. 



NOTE ON FOX nlhutugimdmipen°' 



In m}' 'Contributions' cited above, I assumed that nihutugimdmipen'^ 

 in Jones' texts at 8.6 (so, not 28.6) was an error for kl-. That this is not 

 an error is shown by the following klyavf'. The correct analysis is: 

 nl — pen" [28]; -/?-[8]; -M-[the possessive pronoun under discussion];: 

 -f-[8, 45]; -m-(second one) [45]; -i-[20]. It is evident that kl'u'tugimd- 

 mipen" in Jones' texts at 8.3 is a variant of kiutu'gimd'mipen'^ in- 

 section 13 of the Algonquian sketch in the Handbook of Ameri- 

 can Indian Languages [kl — ipen", 28]. The first accordingly should be^ 

 translated we would have a chief, namely, thyself [see 46] ; and the; 

 second thou wilt be chief to us. The very great similarity of the 

 two words was the source of mistake. 



incorporation of the nominal object 



I have stated in my 'Contributions,' p. 473 that incorporation of the 

 nominal subject or object does not occur in transitive verbs. From 

 some recent work with Fox informants it appears that such incorporation 

 can occur optionally after the first initial stem, or the element -td- 

 ('Contributions,' pp. 472, 473) if there is likewise another stem. A 

 sentence written out by one informant, the phonetics of which I have 

 restored according to Dr. Jones' scheme, stated to have been spoken by 

 an old woman is as follows: nepydtciketdnesawdpAmdpen°' we (excl.) 

 have come to see your daughter, the analysis of which is ne — dpen" 

 [28], pyd-[lQ], -tci- [see above], ketdnesa [ke — a, 45], wdpA-[lQ], -m- 

 [21,37]. It may be noted that the terminal vowel of ketdnes" your 

 DAUGHTER has beome full-sounding. Thus far I have not been able to 

 confirm this type or incorporation by examples from either the texts of 

 Dr. Jones or myself. 



