ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



211 



Grasserie (R. de la) — Continued. 



de la Grasserie, | docteur eu droit, juge 

 au tribunal de Rennes, | membre de la 

 80ciet6 de linguistique de Paris. | (Ex- 

 trait des Memoirs de la Soci6t6 de 

 linguistique, t. VI, 4® fascicule.) | [De- 



. sign.] I 



Paris. I Imprimerie nationale. | M 

 DCCC LXXXVIII [1888 J. 



Printed cover as above, half-title reverse 

 blank 1 1. title as above reverse blank 1 1. text 

 pp. 5-39,8°. 



In chapter 1 the "conjugaison objective con- 

 crete " is illustrated by examples from a num- 

 ber of American languages, among them the 

 Algonquian, and in chapter 3, the "conjugaison 

 objective polysynth6tique " also by examples 

 from the Algonquian. 



Copies seen: Gatschet, PoweU. 



Etudes I de | grammaire compar^e | 



De la cat6gorie du temps j par | Raoul 

 de la Grasserie | Docteur en Droit | 

 Juge au tribunal de Rennes, | Membre 

 de la Soci^t6 de Linguistique de Paris. | 

 Paris I Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc, 

 Miteurs | 25, quai Voltaire, 25. | 1888. 



Printed cover as above, dedication verso 

 hlank 1 1. title as above verso blank 1 1. text pp. 

 1-195, additions and corrections 1 page, 8°. 



The author makes use of many N'orth Amer- 

 ican languages— Aleut, Algonkin, Creek, Da- 

 kota, Eskimo, Iroquois, Maya, Nahuatl, Sahap- 

 tin, et al. ,- but the material pertaining to any 

 one of them is meager and scattered. 



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Etudes I de | grammaire compar^e | 



Des I divisions de la linguistique | par 

 I Raoul de la Grasserie | Docteur en 

 Droit 1 Juge au tribunal de Rennes, | 

 Membre de la Soci6t6 de Linguistique 

 de Paris. | 



Paris I Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc, 

 ^diteurs | 25, quai Voltaire, 25. I 1888. 



Printed cover as above, dedication verso 

 blank 1 1. title as above verso blank 1 1. text 

 pp. 1-164, 8°. 



A section entitled "Morphologie lexicologi- 

 que," pp. 87-108, contains a few words in 

 Nahuatl, p. 91; Dacotah, pp. 91-92; Cri, p. 92; 

 Chippewa, p. 93; Ab6uaqui, p. 93; Lenap6, p. 

 107. 



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Etudes I de | grammaire compar^e | 



Des relations grammaticales | consid^- 

 r^es dans leur concept et dans leur ex- 

 pression I ou de la | cat6gorie des cas | 

 par I Raoul de la Grasserie | docteur 

 en droit | Juge au Tribunal de Rennes 



Grasserie (R. de la) — Continued. 



I Membre de la Soci^t^ de Linguistique 

 de Paris. | 



Paris I Jean Maisonneuve, 6diteur | 

 25, quai Voltaire, | 25 | 1890 



Printed cover as above, half-title verso blank 

 11. title as above verso blank 11. dedication 

 verso blank 1 1. text pp. 1-344, contents pp. 345- 

 351, 8°. 



Examples from several North American lan- 

 guages are made use of by the author: Nahuatl, 

 Dakota, Othomi, Maya, Quiche, Totonaque, 

 Tcherokess, Algonquin, Tarasque, Esquimau, 

 Iroquois, Athapaske, Chiapaneque, Sahaptin, 

 Tchinuk, Choctaw, pp. 17, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 

 84, 129-132, 1 33, 177, 325-326, 394, 395. 



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Gravier {Bev. James). [Dictionary of the 

 Illinois language. ] 



Manuscript belonging to Dr. J. Hammond 

 Trumbull, Hartford, Conn., who permitted me 

 to inspect it and who subsequently furnished 

 me the following description : 



"It is a stout volume in quarto or small folio, 

 the leaf measuring llj by SJ inches. It has 

 been bound, but is now, and probably for many 

 years has been, without its covers. It has lost 

 the first two or three leaves at the beginning, 

 and perhaps as many at the end, and a few 

 other leaves have been somewhat injured by 

 mice. There remain 293 leaves (586 pages), 

 which average about 38 lines to the page, indi- 

 cating a total of about 22,000 words. The 

 arrangement is Illinois-French (not French- 

 Illinois). The dialect is that of the Peorias 

 (Peouaria), readily distinguished from the 

 Miami-Illinois by the use of r for Miami I. 

 Occasionally, however, words and phrases are 

 introduced which are marked as 'Miami.' The 

 manuscript is very neat and legible. The hand- 

 writing and the orthography, in my opinion 

 and in that of French scholars who have in- 

 spected it, show that it was written before or 

 not many years after the beginning of the 18th 

 century ; certainly, I should say, not later than 

 1710. If so, it cannot have been the work of 

 the Rev. Jos. I. Le Boulauger, whose connection 

 with the Illinois Mission has not been traced 

 before 1719. On nearly every page, however, 

 there are additions, corrections, or explana- 

 tions in at least two later and distinct hands; 

 but these are not more frequent than two or 

 three to the page on the average. 



" Throughout the work references are made 

 to another volume or volumes, which contained 

 a grammar, lists of radicals, names of animals, 

 plants, medicines, etc. 



"I conclude that this dictionary was com- 

 piled by Gravier, though I cannot positively 

 say that it is in his autograph, and that the ad- 

 ditions and emendations were made by his 

 successors in the mission, some of them, per- 

 haps, by Le Boulanger. 



"The French-Illinois dictionary discovered 



