| Summary: | PM108 R32x, 1919; E51 .C15 v. 14, no. 5 15 Cover title.; Series: University of California publications in American archaeology and ethnology, Vol. 14, no. 5.; Photocopy. Ashland, Or. : Southern Oregon University Library, 2003. "The task Professor Boas and his school set themselves was the analytical presentation of the various; Indian languages according to the specific genius of each, and interest thus shifted entirely from what were deemed futile genetic problems to monographic studies of special languages . The first serious reduction of the number of stocks was, however, that proposed by Kroeber and Dixon, who, subsequently aided by Sapir and Harrington, reduced all the languages of California to seven stocks . One of the most startling and brilliant achievements in this connection was Sapir's demonstration of the relationship of Wiyot and Yurok to Algonkin . The present paper is the result of the writer's detailed study of Wappo, a Yukian language, which showed rather clear and definite relationships to Hokan, on the one hand, and to Siouan, on the other, and subsequently disclosed remarkable similarities to Athapaskan and Penutian. A comparison of Winnebago (Siouan) with the unpublished grammar of Southern Paiute (Shoshoneon), afterwards undertaken, showed marked resemblances between Siouan and Shoshonean"--P. 489-490 [2-3]. Born in Poland and a graduate of City College of New York, Paul Radin completed doctoral study in ethnology at Columbia University under the direction of Franz Boas.
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