The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and ManuscriptsSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Indians of North America
Nature and principles of the pronoun--Its distinction into
preformative and subformative classes--Personal pronouns--The
distinction of an inclusive and exclusive form in the number of the
first person plural--Modifications of the personal pronouns to
imply existence, individuality, possession, ownership, position and
other accidents--Declension of pronouns to answer the purpose of
the auxiliary verbs--Subformatives, how employed, to mark the
persons--Relative pronouns considered--Their application to the
causative verbs--Demonstrative pronouns--their separation into two
classes, animates and inanimates--Example of their use.
Pronouns are buried, if we may so say, in the structure of the verb. In
tracing them back to their primitive forms, through the almost infinite
variety of modifications which they assume, in connexion with the verb,
substantive and adjective, it will facilitate analysis, to group them
into preformative and subformative, which include the pronominal
prefixes and suffixes, and which admit of the further distinction of
separable and inseparable. By separable is intended those forms, which
have a meaning by themselves, and are thus distinguished from the
inflective and subformative pronouns, and pronominal particles
significant only, in connection with another word.
1. Of the first class, are the personal pronouns Neen (I,) Keen (thou,)
and Ween or O (he or she.) They are declined to form the plural persons
in the following manner:
I, Neen. We Keen owind (in.)
We Neen owind (ex.)
Thou, Keen. Ye Keen owau.
He or She, Ween or O. They Ween owau.
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