SOME LINGUISTIC NOTES ON THE TEXT 
The Fox text in the present volume is of considerable linguistic 
importance, as it differs in both content and form from any previ- 
ously published Fox text. It is owing to these characteristics that 
we have a different vocabulary and that certain novel grammatical 
formations occur which are not discussed in the Fox sketch in the 
Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bulletin 40, B. A. E. 
The reader should thoroughly familiarize himself with Fox phonetic 
shifts before attempting to study the text, for with a knowledge of 
them much that is obscure will at once become transparent. It may 
be observed that such initial contractions as G- for @4- and a@%i- 
are quite common (e. g., @‘tégi 52.33 for d’‘a‘tégi). If the beginner 
keeps this in mind he will be greatly facilitated in consulting the list 
of stems. 
The following grammatical notes are given as an aid to the com- 
prehension of the Indian text. The paragraphs referred to are those 
of the grammatical sketch of Fox cited above. 
§8. At 34.15 -y- is used as glide between the stems agwa- ‘‘out 
of the water” and @‘cowv- ‘‘to cross,” the final @ of agwa- of course 
being changed to ai. It is also used as a glide at 32.38 between the 
stems 4‘cd- ‘‘backward”’ and -a- ‘‘to flee.” 
§10. Such contractions as me'tend’*megu‘u (40.32, 40.33) for 
me'tend wmegu'u and aiyo'‘megu‘u (46.18, 46.20) for aiyd“imegu‘u are 
common; uncontracted forms also occur. 
§12. The w of me'‘to'stineniw- (me'to‘sdénent’¥4* “people’’) is lost 
before the instrumental particle -m- in a verbal compound at 34.38. 
See a close parallel in I. J. A. L. i, 50 (footnote 4). 
§28. The effect of the formative element -tug** (§14 end) on the 
pronominal affixes is not touched on. In the text only a couple of 
difficult cases arise, namely, tdpe‘situ’gd‘ig** ‘‘they are probably 
pleased”’ (54.4) and kenene‘kdneme’gotug™', ‘‘he has probably thought 
of you”’ (38.1). 
§29. Both &- and wi‘- are used in the same verbal compound at 
56.10. Previously (P. A. E. S.ix, 124) I pointed out the same thing 
in Kickapoo. 
§30. Certain forms in the text occur which contradict the table 
of pronominal terminations, namely, witamawa’*kdg*“* ‘‘you should 
tell them (an.),”’ [at 44.17; potential mode], awita®... . act kegeni- 
1 For such changes as aw to both & and 6 (due to the influence of adjacent sounds), i toe by vowel 
assimilation, etc., see p. 72. 
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