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NOTES ON THE FOX INTERROGATIVE MODE 



The Fox interrogative mode is discussed in section 32 of the Algon- 

 quian sketch in the Handbook of American Indian Languages. A table 

 giving the terminations of the intransitive forms of the conjunctive will 

 be found there. However, as I have already pointed out, transitive 

 forms certainly exist, though not given in the table. Since then I have 

 been able to construct a practically complete series by having Fox 

 informants translate English sentences framed to bring out the desired 

 points. The informants wrote the words in the current syllabary, the 

 phonetics of which I subsequently restored according to Dr. Jones' 

 scheme. This was done because transitive forms necessarily are of 

 rare occurrence in texts containing myths or tales, owing to the nature of 

 the sentences involved. However, the forms seem to be sufficienth^ 

 confirmed by those I have found in the texts of both Dr. Jones and myself 

 as to warrant publication, subject to future correction. The initial 

 d- or ivl- is omitted in the table herewith. 



Examples from the texts of both Dr. Jones and the writer illustrating 

 the above follow. 



Intransitive forms: 



wihAnemime'tusaneniiviwaiiQ.n.^ (J. 380.12) as long into the future 

 AS I SHALL LIVE [IiAnejyii-, 16; me'tusdnenlwi- derived from the noun 

 me'tusdneniw'^ mortal by the addition of the copula -i-, 20, and stripping 

 the ending of animate nouns (-") from the word; see Am. Anthropologist, 

 N. S., XV, p. 475]; 



vnhicawi'wsiga.n^ (J. 364.20) what we (excl.) should do [-/»-, S;i- 

 cawi-, stem, 16]; 



vfhwd'piyemutvw A^sin'^ (J. 20.12) when we (incl.) shall begin 

 SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER [wdpi-, 16; pe7nw-, 16; -ti-, 38]; 



p?/dwAnan' (M.) at last thou hast come [pyd-, 16; see also 11 at 

 end]; 



dcamcam wagwan' (M.) how you have been doing [cawi-, 25; 

 cawi-, 16]; 



dcawi gwan' (J. 342.15) what has become of him (cawi-, 16]; 



wlhutciponesegnkwag' (J. 364.16) how there should be an end of 

 the killing of them [-h-, 8; utci-, 16; po- shortened from po7ii-, 16: see 

 12; ne- kill, initial stem; -s-, 21, 37 (not nes- as given in 16); -e-, 8; 

 -kwdhig'- for -givdh'ig\ 3; -gu-, 41); 



atogwan' (M.) it must have been (here) [-td-, 20] 



