CONTENTS 



Page 



§ 1. Introduction 971 



§§2-12. Phonetics 974 



§ 2. Sounds and sound-symbols 974 



§ 3. Accent and quantity 981 



§ 4. Changes of palatal consonants 983 



§ 5. Changes of dental and labial consonants 987 



§ 6. Shifting of voiced and voiceless fricatives 988 



§ 7. Shifting of voiceless fricatives and stopped consonants 991 



§ 8. The Greenlandic s sounds 992 



§ 9. Shifting of consonants with change of place of articulation 993 



§ 10. V^ocaUc shifts 994 



§ 11. Mutation 996 



§ 12. Retrogressive uvularization 998 



§§ 13-16. Classes of words, base and stem 1002 



§ 13. General remarks on the structure of the Eskimo language 1002 



§ 14. Base and stem 1003 



§ 15. Examples of bases and stems 1004 



§ 16. Classes of words 1006 



§§ 17-50. Inflection 1007 



§§ 17-44. Typical inflection 1007 



§ 17. Plural and dual inflection 1007 



§§18-29. Nouns 1010 



§ 18. Class I. Plural inflection without shift of stress 1010 



§ 19. Class II (a). Plural inflection with shift of stress 1011 



§20. Class II (6). Plural inflection affected by retrogressive 



uvularization 1013 



§ 21. Class III. Irregular plural inflection 1014 



§ 22. Characteristics of the irregularities in the formation of the 



plural 1015 



§ 23. Absolutive and relative 1016 



§ 24. Local cases 1017 



§ 25. , Local cases— Continued 1019 



§ 26. Personal cases, or possessive inflection, of nouns 1021 



§ 27. Paradigm of the possessive inflection of nouns 1023 



§ 28. Irregular possessive inflection 1024 



§ 29. Local cases of possessive forms of nouns 1028 



§§ 30-44. Verbs 1 031 



§ 30. Conjugation 1031 



§ 31. Synopsis of possessive endings of nouns ( N. ) and verbs ( V. ) . 1032 

 § 32. Synopsis of verbal modes of conjugation (dialect of West 



Greenland) 1 036 



§33. Model. Imperative 1038 



§ 34. Mode II. Indicative intransitive 1038 



§35. Modem. Indicative transitive 1039 



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