BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 1021 



Singular 



Absolutive iPeroq stale urine 



Allative iPerqumut 



Locative iPerqurae 



Ablative iPerqumit 



Instrumentalis iPerqumih 



Prosecutive iPerquTihnt 



§26. PERSONAL CASES, OR POSSESSIVE INFLECTION, OF NOUNS. 



GREENLAND 



ALASKA (BARNUM 19-25) 2 



It will be clear from this synopsis that some of the Greenland 

 singular and plural endings must be accounted for in the dual forms 

 of the Alaska dialect. I have especiall}^ in mind the endings begin- 

 ning in r{<q), rpxd OUR, rse your, rtik their own, rpit of thy, 

 which in Greenlandic indicate the singular of the thing owned; in 

 Alaska, duality. Likewise the Greenland yih their own two ones, 

 which does not agree in form with the Alaska rTcet^ originally must 

 have meant their two selves' two, since it is in form in accord- 



II designate by "fourth person" the reflexive, the form expressing that the subject of the sen- 

 tence is possessor. 



2 1 have here hypothetically transcribed the paradigms of Barnum in accordance with my own 

 spelling of the Eskimo language. 



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