CONTENTS 



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§ 1. Distribution of language and dialects 287 



§§ 2-4. Phonetics 287 



§ 2. System of sounds 287 



§ 3. Grouping of sounds and laws of euphony 290 



§ 4. The phonetic systems of Nass and Tsimshian 290 



§ 5. Grammatical processes 295 



§ 6. Ideas expressed by grammatical processes 296 



§§ 7-67. Discussion of grammar 298 



§§ 7-16. Proclitic particles 298 



§ 7. General remarks 298 



§ 8. Local particles appearing in pairs ( nos. 1-22) 300 



§ 9. Local particles — continued ( nos. 23-62) 305 



§ 10. Modal particles (nos. 63-135) 312 



§ 11. Nominal particles (nos. 136-156) 328 



§12. Particles transforming verbs into nouns (nos. 157-163) 333 



§ 13. Particles transforming nouns into verbs (nos. 164-166) 336 



§ 14. Transitive pronominal subject 336 



§ 15. Particles that may precede the transitive subject (nos. 167-180) . . 337 



§ 16. Alphabetical list of particles 340 



§§ 17-32. Suffixes 343 



§ 17. Suffixes following the stem 343 



§ 1 8. Pronominal suffixes 348 



§ 19. Modal suffixes following the pronominal suffixes. 348 



§20. Demonstrative suffixes 349 



§§ 21-31. Connectives 350 



§ 21. General remarks 350 



§ 22. Attributive and adverbial connectives 350 



§ 23. Predicative and possessive connectives 352 



§§ 24-31. Predicative and possessive connectives of the Tsimshian 



dialect 354 



§ 24. General characteristics of the connectives 354 



§ 25. Predicative connectives 355 



§ 26. Connectives between subject and object 359 



§27. Possessive connectives 360 



§ 28. Prepositional connectives 360 



§ 29. Phonetic modification of the connectives 362 



§ 30. Connectives of the conjunction and 362 



§ 31. The connective -I 362 



§ 32. Suffixes of numerals 363 



§ 33. Contraction 363 



§ 34. Incorporation 365 



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