ALGONQUIAN 



(FOX) 



By William Jones 



(Revised by Truman Michelson) 



Introductory Note 



The following sketch of the grammar of the Fox was written by 

 Dr. William Jones in 1904. Shortly after the completion of the 

 manuscript Doctor Jones was appointed by the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington to conduct investigations among the Ojibwa of Canada 

 and the United States, and it was his intention to revise the Fox 

 grammar on the basis of the knowledge of the Ojibwa dialect which 

 he had acquired. 



Unfortunately Doctor Jones's investigations among the Ojibwa 

 were discontinued before he was able to complete the scientific 

 results of his field-studies, and he accepted an appointment to visit 

 the Philippine Islands for the Field Museum of Natural History, of 

 Chicago. The duties which he had taken over made it impossible 

 for him to continue at the time his studies on the Algonquian dialects, 

 and finally he fell a victim to his devotion to his work. 



Thus it happened that the sketch of the Fox grammar was not 

 worked out in such detail as Doctor Jones expected. Meanwhile 

 Doctor Jones's collection of Fox texts were published by the Ameri- 

 can Ethnological Society, and Doctor Truman Michelson undertook 

 the task of revising the essential features of the grammar by a 

 compai'ison of Doctor Jones's statements with the material contained 

 in the volume of texts. 



On the whole, it has seemed best to retain the general arrangement 

 of the material given by Doctor Jones, and Doctor Michelson has 

 confined himself to adding notes and discussions of doubtful points 

 wherever it seemed necessary. All the references to the printed series 

 of texts, the detailed analyses of examples, and the analysis of the 

 text printed at the end of the sketch, have been added by Doctor 

 Michelson. Longer insertions appear signed with his initials. 



Franz Boas. 

 March, 1910. 



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