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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[YOL. I. 



The following affixes preclude the possibility of union with a comple- 

 ment, and are so intimately connected with the verb as to possess of 

 themselves no separate existence : — 



Besides the above and other similar affixes, I may refer to those which 

 are instrumental in modifying the form of the verb, and which we shall 

 presently study. 



CHAPTER VII. 



VARIETIES OF VERBS. 



While the whole fabric of the Dene conjugations seems to be the almost 

 exact reproduction of the Latin and Greek verbal inflections, the many 

 forms which modify them, and the nature of these modifications, equally 

 remind the student of the l^a/, niphal, piei, etc., of the Hebrew gram- 

 mar. I am well aware that some scholars, among them J. W. Powell in 

 his " Introduction to the study of Indian languages,"-|- are inclined to as- 

 similate these forms to mere grammatical modes. But I am loath to 



*This particle, moreover, refers to a prompt action, having the soil for its terminus. 

 f Second Edit. p. 53. 



