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in which mit is apparently the second person men, with a post- 

 position tsa, mintsa ; while yuts is a verbal fragment from 

 yuyuts, which the author explains to mean " to set about," or 

 " to get done." This imperative, therefore, is a verbal noun in 

 synthesis with an interjection, " get done with thy gathering." 

 It is a marked case of polysynthesis. A number of such are 

 found in the Mutsun phrases given, as : 



Rugemitithsyuts cannis, Give me arrows. 

 In this compound cannis, is for can + huas, me + for ; yuts is 

 the imperative interjection for yuyuts ; the remainder of the 

 word is not clear. The phrase is given elsewhere 



Rugemitit, Give (thou) me arrows. 

 Without going further into this language, of which we know so 

 little, it will be evident that it is very far from simple, and that 

 it is certainly highly synthetic in various features. 



Conclusions. 



The conclusions to which the above study leads may be briefly 

 summarized as follows : 



1. The structural processes of Incorporation and Polysynthe- 

 sis are much more influential elements in the morphology of 

 language than has been conceded by some recent writers. 



2. They are clearly apparent in a number of American lan- 

 guages where their presence has been heretofore denied. 



3. Although so long as we are without the means of examin- 

 ing all American tongues, it will be premature to assert that 

 these processes prevail in all, nevertheless it is safe to say that 

 their absence has not been demonstrated in any of which we 

 have sufficient and authentic material on which to base a de- 

 cision. 



4. The opinion of Duponceau and Humboldt, therefore, that 

 these processes belong to the ground-plan of American languages, 

 and are their leading characteristics, must be regarded as still 

 uncontroverted in any instance. 



