¹ This remark is based on the published material; there is probably a great deal of syntax in the files of Americanists. Perhaps the most important printed data are those given from Menomini in Bloomfield's Language.

² Field work was done in the summers of 1937 and 1938 on grants from the Social Science Research Council. In the autumn of 1938, while working with the Oklahoma Kickapoo on a grant from the Institute of Human Relations of Yale University, a small amount of time was spent on checking the local dialect of Potawatomi. During the Spring of 1939 the material gathered was organized into a monograph entitled ‘The Potawatomi Language’, which was submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University as a Doctoral Dissertation; work during that period was supported by the American Council of Learned Societies. The present paper is a reorganized extract from the above mentioned dissertation.

³ The orthography is that generally in use by Americanists today, except that the symbol j is used instead of y for the semivowel like the first phoneme in the English word ‘you’.

⁴ Most of the syntactical terms used in this paper are those standardized by Bloomfield in his Language. ‘Nexus’ and ‘junction,‘ however, come from Jespersen, as, for example, in his The Philosophy of Grammar. In working out the syntax of Potawatomi extensive use was made of Jespersen's system of Analytical Syntax; but for final presentation it was felt that the use of an extensive set of auxiliary symbols was unnecessary.