MICHELSON. ] LINGUISTIC: NOTES. 349 
I have shown in the American Anthropologist, n. s. 15, pp. 474, 475, 
the curious verbalizing of possessed nouns. Examples in the pre- 
ceding text are to be found at 298.3, 310.29, 310.31, 312.2-3, 312.19; 
at 310.35 and 310.36 the cases are more complicated as ‘‘ loose com- 
position” also occurs. 
It should be noted that where parts of the body are the objects of 
transitive verbs a stem which usually closely resembles the ordinary 
nominal one, but commonly ending in 4, is inserted in the verbal 
compound immediately before the instrumental particle. See for 
example 304.13, 316.6, 318.30, 318.37. For convenience a few cases 
which strictly do not belong here, though they are analogous, are 
included. 
As I pointed out in Bull. 72, Bur. Amer. Ethnology, page 70, there 
is a peculiar potential subjunctive, not treated in the sketch, whose 
characteristic seems to be a termination -ni'*’. A couple of examples 
are ta‘citipinemina'“’ (324.10) ‘one would have then rejoiced at me,” 
kigo* icimine’/nené* (814.14; awita understood) ‘he would have 
given you nothing.” Note that there is a potential subjunctive of 
the indefinite passive which is clearly related, to -nii'“*. See pages 
287, 347, 494. [An additional example of -ni** is to be found at 
320.25.] 
The element -w- (-wi-) discussed by me in the International Journal 
of American Linguistics, i, pp. 52, 53, occurs in wi ki cigiwi’neme'ki 
(306.9) “they will think that you are mature.” 
When transitive verbs have an indefinite object or objects -iwii- is 
inserted immediately after the instrumental particle, and the ordinary 
intransitive pronominal endings are added. (See 308.28, 322.3.) 
The structure of niwi‘iyan (304.37-38) “when I saw her” is not 
clear to me, though in other Fox texts I have found similar cases. 
Likewise unaipimiwane (324.42) [precise translation? “when you 
took a husband” free rendition] is not clear in the posterior portion. 
