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с. drammars and Text-books etc. by authors мЬо bare learned 

 the language that they describe by hearing it. 



41. Paul Egede: Granimatica Grönlandica Danico-Latina. 

 Havniæ 1760. 



Egede's view of the grammatical structure of the Greenlandic language 

 has on the whole been the basis of all subsequent descriptions of the 

 East Eslcimo language. 



"Omnes enim novae lingvae cuidam antiquae originem debent, 

 mutatisque stirpibus mutatur lingva, mixtione ex novis et anti- 

 quis vocabulis facta etc. Antiquae lingvae e contrario priniam 

 plerumque retinent compositionem etc. Hide innixi fundamento 

 lingvam Grönlandicam esse pervetustam, credere deberemus, ac- 

 curatas enim in 2^urimis Grammaticae régulas habet etc. — 

 Ceterum, hanc lingvam Europ)aeis aut Asiaticis debere originem, 

 hand credo'' (Egede's Prefatio). 



42. David С ranz: Historie von Groenland enthaltend die 

 Beschreibung des Landes und der Einwohner etc. ins- 

 besondere die Geschichte der dortigen Mission der Evan- 

 gelischen Brüder zu Neu-Herrnluit und Lichtenfels. Barby 

 und Leipzig 1765. — Zweyte Auflage 1770. 



Vol. 1, pp. 277 — 291, remarks on the grammatical construction of the 

 Greenlandic language, with e.\amples etc. 



43. E. Thorhall es en: Schema Verbi Grönlandici exeuntes 

 in rpok, рок purum, vok et ок. Sine et cum suffixis 

 agentium et patientium. Havniae 1776. 



Tabulated survey of all the verbal inflectional endings. 



44. Otho Fabricius: Forsøg til en forbedret Grönlandsk 

 Grammatica. København 1791. — Second Ed. 1801. 

 Egede's grammar on a more extensive plan. 



45. (C.J. 0. Steenberg?) Grönlandsk Grammatik. I. Nominernes 

 Flexion i Henseende til Numeros og Suffixa. П. Verbernes 

 Flexion med og uden Snffixa. Kbhvn. 1849. 



46. Ivan Veniaminoff: Langues de l'Amérique Russe. — 

 Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, 5"°^ série, vol. 1, 1850 

 (vol. 125 of the collection). 



