Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes
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'. .. In the ever-shifting state ofa nomadic society no debased coin can be tolerated in language, noobscure legend accepted on trust. The metal must be pure and thelegend distinct. " Indian languages, like those of higher development, sometimesexhibit changes of form by the permutation of vowels, but often anincorporated particle, whether suffix, affix, or infix, shows theetymology which often, also, exhibits the same objective conceptionthat would be executed in gesture. There are, for instan...ce, differentforms for standing, sitting, lying, falling, &c. , and for standing, sitting, lying on or falling from the same level or a higher or lowerlevel. This resembles the pictorial conception and execution of signs.
Major J. W. POWELL, with particular reference to the disadvantages ofthe multiplied inflections in Indian languages, alike with the Greekand Latin, when the speaker is compelled, in the choice of a word toexpress his idea, to think of a great multiplicity of things, givesthe following instance: "A Ponca Indian in saying that a man killed a rabbit, would have tosay: the man, he, one, animate, standing, in the nominative case, purposely killed, by shooting an arrow, the rabbit, he, the one, animate, sitting, in the objective case; for the form of a verb tokill would have to be selected, and the verb changes its form byinflection and incorporated particles to denote person, number, andgender as animate or inanimate, and gender as standing, sitting, orlying, and case; and the form of the verb would also express whetherthe killing was done accidentally or purposely, and whether it was byshooting or by some other process, and, if by shooting, whether bybow and arrow, or with a gun; and the form of the verb would in likemanner have to express all of these things relating to the object;that is, the person, number, gender, and case of the object; andfrom the multiplicity of paradigmatic forms of the verb to kill, thisparticular one would have to be selected.
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'. .. In the ever-shifting state ofa nomadic society no debased coin can be tolerated in language, noobscure legend accepted on trust. The metal must be pure and thelegend distinct. " Indian languages, like those of higher development, sometimesexhibit changes of form by the permutation of vowels, but often anincorporated particle, whether suffix, affix, or infix, shows theetymology which often, also, exhibits the same objective conceptionthat would be executed in gesture. There are, for instan...ce, differentforms for standing, sitting, lying, falling, &c. , and for standing, sitting, lying on or falling from the same level or a higher or lowerlevel. This resembles the pictorial conception and execution of signs.
Major J. W. POWELL, with particular reference to the disadvantages ofthe multiplied inflections in Indian languages, alike with the Greekand Latin, when the speaker is compelled, in the choice of a word toexpress his idea, to think of a great multiplicity of things, givesthe following instance: "A Ponca Indian in saying that a man killed a rabbit, would have tosay: the man, he, one, animate, standing, in the nominative case, purposely killed, by shooting an arrow, the rabbit, he, the one, animate, sitting, in the objective case; for the form of a verb tokill would have to be selected, and the verb changes its form byinflection and incorporated particles to denote person, number, andgender as animate or inanimate, and gender as standing, sitting, orlying, and case; and the form of the verb would also express whetherthe killing was done accidentally or purposely, and whether it was byshooting or by some other process, and, if by shooting, whether bybow and arrow, or with a gun; and the form of the verb would in likemanner have to express all of these things relating to the object;that is, the person, number, gender, and case of the object; andfrom the multiplicity of paradigmatic forms of the verb to kill, thisparticular one would have to be selected.
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