[The paper illustrates the multiple relations of linguistics and ethnology by several discrete problems. See the last paragraph.]

[This paper outlines the uses, in Central Algonquian, of a peculiar morphological element, intermediate between root and suffix.]

[Bloomfield has set up the Proto-Algonquian clusters *xk and *xp, using x to represent an undetermined phoneme preceding k and p. This paper proposes to show that *xk consists of two clusters in the parent language, namely *θk and *xk. In addition to establishing the validity of a new Proto-Algonquian cluster, it gives the reflexes for the principal Eastern Algonquian languages and postulates the stages of development.]

[Up to the present this consonantal group has appeared to be rare; hence additional examples will be of interest to Algonquianists.]

[Noun incorporation was formerly often thought to be characteristic of American Indian languages as a whole. While it is now definitely known that the process is not pan-American, its complete area of distribution (especially as a non-functional survival) cannot yet be plotted. For this reason it is of considerable interest that the process can be demonstrated to exist as a survival in the Muskogean languages, particularly since its occurrence in these languages has not previously been reported.]

[A discussion of selected features of Hausa syllabic structure, tonal pattern, vocalism, and consonantism, with incidental criticism of earlier treatments of the language.]

[The Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England lists certain words and expressions as ‘innovations’ and ‘relics’ in New England. This paper, based on fifty field records just completed by the author for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, examines the status of these words and expressions in Wisconsin. Their status rarely proves to be the same; Wisconsin is seen to be in general less conservative than New England.]