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tent of all certain computation. The term gitshee (great), pre- 

 fixed to the last denomination, leaves the number indefinite. 



There is no form of the numerals corresponding to second, 

 third, fourth, &c. They can only further say, nitium, first, and 

 ishkwaudj] last. 



IV. 



Some Remarks respecting the Agglutinative Position and Properties 



of the Pronoun. 



Inquiry 4. 



Nature and principles of the pronoun — Its distinction into preformative and sub- 

 formative classes — Personal pronouns — The distinction of an inclusive and ex- 

 clusive form in the number of the first person plural — Modifications of the 

 personal pronouns to imply existence, individuality, possession, o-wnership, posi- 

 tion, and other accidents — Declension of pronouns to answer the purpose of the 

 auxiliary verbs — Subformatives, how employed to mark the persons — Relative 

 pronouns considered — Their application to the causative verbs — Demonstrative 

 pronouns — Their separation into two classes, animates and inanimates — Example 

 of their use. 



Pronouns are buried, if we may so say, in the structure of 

 the verb. In tracing them back to their primitive forms, through 

 the almost infinite variety of modifications which they assume, in 

 connection with the verb, substantive, and adjective, it will facili- 

 tate analysis to group them into preformative and subformative, 

 which include the terms that have already been made use of — 

 pronominal prefixes, and sufiixes — and which admit of the further 

 distinction of separable and inseparable. By separable, is intended 

 those forms which have a meaning by themselves, and are thus 

 distinguished from the inflective and subformative pronouns, and 

 pronominal particles, significant only in connection with another 

 word. 



1. Of the first class, are the personal pronouns Neen (I), Keen 

 (Thou), and Ween or (He or She). They are declined, to form 

 the plural persons, in the following manner: — 



