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��I think that the explanation is that tdpesi is taken as a unit. This is confirmed by klwd- pesihihegog' THEY WILL SET YOU CRAZY, J. 308.21 (ki gog', 28; si, apparently for si; hi, 20; h, 21, 37; e, 8). In this compound also the copula precedes the tran- sitivizing suffix. For tdpesi and wdpesi, note d'tdpesiwdtc' THEY WERE HAPPY (a watc', 29), nekatawiwdpes' i HAVE ALMOST GONE CRAZY, J. 308.18 (ne-, 28; katawi ALMOST).

THE POSITION OF THE Fox VERBAL STEM kAski ("ABILITY"). In the "American An- thropologist" (N. s., 15 : 475) I stated that the Fox verbal stem kAski could not occur outside a compound. I have just discovered from a text recently collected that it can do this very thing: thus, ki'uwlgipwameg" kAski noteg' YOU (pi.) WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE THERE WHEN IT IS WINDY.

REMARKS ON THE PHONETIC ELEMENTS OF Fox. On p. 50 I stated that I do not con- sider Jones's phonetic scheme adequate for the Fox dialect. Our chief points of difference are: that I hear aspirations before all initial vowels and diphthongs, after all terminal voiceless vowels, and after all vowels when followed by sibilants; long vowels for short, and vice versd; o for u always; sometimes o for u; always u for o initially and terminally, rarely otherwise; but one sound (') for h and ' ; ck always for sk; surd stops as glides after sonant stops when immediately preceding terminal voiceless vowels which are at the same time aspirated ; a voiceless w after stops in the same position; surd m and n as glides after m and w respectively in the same posi tions ; a fricative that begins as a sonant stop, gliding into a surd fricative, for tc when preceding the terminal voiceless aspirated vowels, and in a few other cases; glides for Jones's inverted periods; the main accent in different positions; 'a'- (Jones a-) and wi'- everywhere in verbal complexes, and not solely before k, t, p.

A SECOND NOTE ON Fox PWAWI-. In the "American Anthropologist" (N. s., 15 : 364) I pointed out, that, from the evidence of Kick-

��apoo, we must consider Fox pwawi-, the negative particle of the conjunctive and cer- tain other subordinate modes, to be a primary stem. At the time I overlooked the fact that the published Cree, Ojibwa, and Algonkin material also supported this view (see La- combe, under pwd [I/re impuissant], etc.; Baraga, under bwdma, etc.; Lemoine, under incapable [pwd-, pwa-, pwdwi-]; Cuoq, under pwa-, pwawi-). I may add that Ojibwa ninbwdma i CANNOT PREVAIL UPON HIM is to be analyzed thus: nin a, the subjective and objective pronominal elements; bwd, the primary stem; -m-, the instrumental particle DONE WITH THE MOUTH, with animate object. Evidently the wi of Fox pwawi- and Algonkin pwdwi-, pwawi-, needs further elucidation. Shawnee pwd-, the equivalent of Fox pwdwi-, sheds no light on the problem, owing to the phonetics of that language.

REMARKS ON THE PHONETICS OF THE GULL LAKE DIALECT OF OJIBWA. The material from which these notes are taken was gathered about two years ago from a single informant; namely, William Potter, at that time sixty-one years old. The informant was nearly a full- blooded Indian, and spoke but broken Eng- lish. We may therefore presume that his pronunciation is characteristic of the dialect. These notes are assembled here in the belief that they will be of interest, and stimulate others to note peculiarities of the various Ojibwa dialects. They are not exhaustive, and other points in the phonetics of this dialect may surely be found out by a pro- tracted study; for a half-hour with the infor- mant was all that was possible, owing to his own pressing business in Washington. Some features of the Gull Lake dialect are thus far quite unique, not occurring in the dialects of Bois Fort or Fort William or Leech Lake, to judge from the texts of William Jones and De Jong. It is to be hoped that Radin's texts may be published soon, that the phonetics may be compared with those of the Gull Lake dialect.

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