CONTENTS 



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Introductory note 739 



§ 1. The dialect of the Fox 740 



§§ 2-12. Phonetics 741 



§ 2. General characteristics 741 



§ 3. Sounds 742 



§ 4. Sound-clusters 745 



§ 5. Quantity 746 



§ 6. Stress 747 



§ 7. Pitch 748 



§§ 8-12. Sound-changes 749 



§ 8. Accretion 749 



§ 9. Variation of consonants 753 



§ 10. Contraction and assimilation 754 



§ 11. Dissimilation 755 



§ 12. Elision 756 



§ 13. Grammatical processes 758 



§ 14. Ideas expressed by grammatical processes 759 



§§ 15-54. Discussion of grammar 762 



§§ 15-24. Composition 762 



§§ 15-21. Verbal composition 762 



§ 15. Types of stems 762 



§ 16. Initial stems 763 



§§ 17-20. Secondary stems 793 



§ 17. Types of secondary stems 793 



§ 18. Secondary stems of the first order 794 



§ 19. Secondary stems of the second order 797 



§ 20. Secondary co-ordinati ve stems 802 



§ 21. Instrumental particles 807 



§§ 22-24. Substantival composition 809 



§ 22. Character of substantives 809 



§ 23. Secondary stems 810 



§ 24. Nominal suffixes 811 



§ 25. Reduplication 814 



§§ 26-41. The verb 815 



§ 26. Pronoun, voice, and mode 815 



§27. Tense 816 



§§ 28-34. Pronominal forms 817 



§ 28. Independent mode 817 



§ 29. Conjunctive, aoristandfuture-.subjunctive, presentand past. 820 



§ 30. Potential, potential subjunctive, and prohibitive 824 



§ 31. Imperative 826 



§ 32. The interrogative mode 826 



§ 33. Participials 828 



§ 34. Third person animate 830 



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