MICHELSON.] LINGUISTIC NOTES. 347 
The passive composed of the ordinary passive sign -gu- and the 
copula -'si- for the animate, -at- for the inanimate, which I have 
noted in Bulletin 72, loc. cit., is represented also in the text of this 
paper: agwima’ wi kigod ainetaigu'si’yanini (312.15) “you will be 
thought of as naught.”’ 
According to the table the termination of the independent mode of 
the indefinite passive for the third person, singular or plural, animate 
or inanimate, is -ipi; and some examples are given justifying this. 
However, the Indian text of the present paper contains forms in 
-pi for the singular: ‘aiyopi (318.28) “it is used,” i“cawipi (316.2) 
“it is done,” mi’netipi (308.28) “one is reciprocally given,” ‘i'cigi'etip 
(for -pi, 304.2; see also 326.8) ‘one is made to be that way” [very 
literally, “one is grown that way”]. In the conjunctive mode -gi 
replaces -pi: &”cawig*' (316.24) “how it is, how it is done,’ itigi 
(302.29) “it is told,” witasmatig™ (302.29) “one is informed,” 
ne’‘ckitigi (310.7) ‘one is forbidden,” a‘siigitigi (316.1) ‘as one is 
afraid,” a‘citi’gini (316.2) ‘‘as one is told.’”’ It is not easy to decide 
the construction at 316.9,10. Note, however, -api is found at 316.5, 
318.40, 318.41. See p. 613. 
A peculiar potential subjunctive of the indefinite passive, ending 
in -enii'“* is to be seen in awita%tca’/*megu panapamend® (for -nii'*’; 
326.11) ‘‘he would not fail to be seen.”’ This -enai‘“’ bears the same 
relation to -ni'“’ (see pp. 287, 347, 494) that -e%tc’* (the normal termi- 
nation of the third person animate, singular or plural, of the conjunc- 
tive of the indefinite passive) does to -“tc'’ (the ending of the third 
person singular animate, intransitive, of the conjunctive mode). 
Though not given in the sketch, there is a subjunctive mode of the 
indefinite passive. The termination -ete for the third person animate 
bears the same relation to -e“tci of the same person but conjunctive 
mode that -te (the termination of the intransitive third person ani- 
mate, subjunctive mode) does to -tci (same person but conjunctive 
mode): ni’ne'set® (320.25) “if they are beaten.” 
I have pointed out in the International Journal of American Lin- 
guistics, i, p. 56, the conjunctive of the indefinite passive, with obvia- 
tives as subjects end in -me*tci. An example in the Indian text is 
ii'mawipita’“ome“tci (330.37) “when they go to bury him” [really a 
passive]. 
§ 45. There is a type of possession not treated in this paragraph, 
namely, when the possesser is indefinite. The combination u—inaw- 
expresses this. To -inaw- are suffixed the ordinary nominal endings 
to show whether animate or inanimate, singular or plural, are to be 
ascribed to the possessed noun. Of course in some way the u is to 
be associated with the ordinary u of third persons. Examples are: 
uwi kani‘nawag*"’ (310.7—8) ‘ their friends,’ unapimi’nawag*" (316.13) 
“their husbands,” uni‘tcane’si‘nawag*' (320.24) “one’s children,” 
