LINGUISTIC NOTES ON THE INDIAN TEXT. 
The Fox text contained in this paper is of considerable linguistic 
importance as it differs in content from any previously published 
Fox texts. Hence it is that certain novel grammatical features occur 
which are not treated in the Fox sketch in the Handbook of American 
Indian Languages, Bulletin 40, Bur. Amer. Ethnology. The reader 
should be thoroughly familiar with the phonetic shifts of the language 
(see p. 616) before attempting to study the text, as much that is 
obscure will at once be clarified. It may be noted that such initial 
contractions as 4- for &a- and a1 (e. g., icawiyan™ 302.36 for ai 
‘cawiyan"™') are quite common. If this is kept in mind the reader 
will be greatly facilitated in consulting the list of stems. 
The following grammatical notes are given as an aid to the compre- 
hension of the Indian text. The paragraphs referred to are those 
of the grammatical sketch of Fox cited above. Consult also Bull. 
72, B. A. E., p. 68 et seq., and this volume, p. 282 et seq. 
§ 10. The combination -a i- commonly contracts to -&-: winani 
304.45, winana 310.36, ke'tenana 310.33, negyan (for negya ini) 
308.5, mA’nanugi 328.15. 
§ 10. Frequently a final -i is dropped before consonants where it 
normally remains: aiyo'ku'i (for aiyo‘iku'i) 314.5, tya® 314.5, kago’- 
megu (for kiigd‘imegu) 322.41, me‘cena’ 318.21, agwiginin (for 
agwigi'l nina) 322.28-29, inittca’ (for mi%tca‘i) 322.24, ete. 
§ 14 (end). The elision of formative elements before -tuge (suffix 
indicating probability) is exemplified by kyawitug'" (kyawé’) 
326.34, a’ tituge (a‘ti™’) 336.1. See also 304.31, 330.12, 13. 
§ 28. The intransitive third person plural inanimate is given as 
-oni. This apples in the majority of cases, but strictly speaking it 
should be given as -wAni; after consonants -6ni naturally would occur 
(see p. 616), but after vowels -wani is retained: indgwa’tiwant 
(804.16) “they were piled up in such away,” ! miime‘ca/‘iwani (308.12) 
“they were large ones,” tcage’ckiiwan™ (306.6) “they all fall out.” 
§ 29. Sometimes the ending -ni is used even when the negative 
aigw1is not used, e.g., ki citcagipagi senamawawa “tcini (330.41) “after 
all have offered (thrown) it to them.” See p. 612. When -ni is so 
used, a “‘ whenever”’ clause is indicated. 
§ 30. As I have pointed out on another occasion, the table contains 
a number of errors; the text in the present volume confirms this: 
note pe'setawa'kittc®’ (308.8; potential) “she might listen to her,” 
1 The translations of the isolated Fox words and phrases in these linguistic notes, of necessity, are not 
always precisely the same as in the English rendition of the connected text. 
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