[Critical examination of the grammatical chapters in Bloomfield's Language, with suggestions toward a procedure for grammatical analysis.]

[The thesis of the paper is summarized in §§2 and 63a. For definition of certain terms and arbitrary symbols, see footnote 6 and §3.]

[The presence in central Italy of certain North Italian features (West Romance sound-shift, elements of vocabulary), in the shape of relic forms, is examined in the light of the AIS materials, and is correlated with the boundaries of the former Papal States. This phenomenon is explained by southward borrowing through this region in the Middle Ages, later overlaid by reintroduction of ERom. features from Tuscany through the expansion of standard Italian. A revised theory of dialectal (NIt.) origin is proposed for words in standard Italian showing the WRom. sound-shift (e.g. strada, ago), considering them as having come into Tuscany through central Italy.]

[For two generations Guy Miege has been erroneously regarded as a representative of early Standard English. This paper shows that the pronunciation taught by Miege was fundamentally Northern-Scottish.]

[A comparison of the forms in various Algonquian languages among themselves and with parallel forms, points to PA *ke—eθe-ne, in which *-eθe- indicates an inverse relation between *ke- and *-ne, which are object and actor, respectively.]