APPENDIX. 



1. INDIAN LANGUAGE. 

 I. 



Observations on the Grammatical Structure and Flexibility of the 

 Odjibiva Substantive.^ 



Inquiry 1. 



Observations on the Ojibwai substantive. 1. Tlie provision of the language for 

 indicating gender — Its general and comprehensive character — The division of 

 TTords into animate and inanimate classes. 2. Number — its recondite forms, 

 arising from the terminal vowel in the word. 3. The grammatical forms which 

 indicate possession, and enable the speaker to distinguish the objective person. 



Most of the researches which have been directed to the Indian 

 languages, have resulted in elucidating the principles governing 

 the use of the verb, which has been proved to be full and varied 

 in its inflections. Either less attention has been paid to the other 

 parts of speech, or results less suited to create high expectations 

 of their flexibility and powers have been attained. The Indian 

 verb has thus been made to stand out, as it'were in bold relief, as 

 a shield to defects in the substantive and its accessories, and as, 

 in fact, compensating, by its multiform appendages of prefix and 

 suffix — by its tensal, its pronominal, its substantive, its adjective, 

 and its adverbial terminations, for barrenness and rigidity in all 

 other parts of speech. Influenced by this reflection, I shall defer, 



* Mr. Du Ponceau did me the honor, in 1834, to translate these two inquiries 

 on the substantive in full, for the prize paper on the Algonquin, before the National 

 Institute of France. 



