[Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, No. 5, Part II, pp. 07-152, 

 March 18, 1905.] 



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ESSAY ON THE GRAMMAR OF THE YUKAGHIR 



LANGUAGE. 



Waldemar Jochelson. 



Contents. 



PAGE. 



1. Preface 97 



2. Phonology 1 00 



The Parts of Speech 103 



3. The Noun 103 



4. The Adjective 1 12 



5. Numerals 1 13 



6. The Pronoun Il6 



7 . The Verb I19 



8. The Gerund or Verbal Adverb 134 



9. The Adverb 135 



10. The Post-positions 137 



11. Concluding Remarks 138 



12. Appendix 141 



A tale of what the Ancient Yukaghir did with their dead shamans 141 



A free translation of the text 143 



A grammatical analysis of the text 144 



PREFACE. 



I took up the study of the two dialects of the Yukaghir lan- 

 guage in 1895-97 during my participation in the Yakut Expe- 

 dition, fitted out by the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, 

 and continued it on the North Pacific Expedition (from 1900 to 

 1902), provided for by Mr. Morris K. Jesup, President of the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York. My 

 work on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition was part of a 

 general systematic investigation of the tribes inhabiting the 

 coast of the North Pacific Ocean. The full results of these 

 studies will be published later on in the Memoirs of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. 



