Perhaps one time in a million it would be the purpose to
express all of these particulars, and in that case the Indian would have
the whole expression in one compact word, but in the nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine cases all of these
particulars would have to be thought of in the selection of the form of
the verb, when no valuable purpose would be accomplished thereby.
In the development of the English, as well as the French and German,
linguistic evolution has not been in vain.
Judged by these criteria, the English stands alone in the highest rank;
but as a written language, in the way in which its alphabet is used, the
English has but emerged from a barbaric condition.
INDEX.
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Adjective, The, in Indian tongues 10
Adverbial particles 13
Adverbs in Indian tongues 10, 11, 13
Agglutination in language 4
Article pronouns in Indian languages 9, 10
Combination
in Indian tongues 7
in language, Process of, 3, 7
Comparison, of English with Indian 15
Compounding in language 3
Connotation of Indian nouns 8
Derivation, how accomplished 7
Differentiation of parts of speech 8
Evolution of language 3
Gender in Indian languages 9
Grammatic processes, agglutination 4
----, combination 3
----, compounding 3
----, inflection 4
----, intonation 6
----, juxtaposition 3
----, placement 7, 8
----, vocalic mutation 5
Indian tongues, Relative position of 15
Inflection
in English language 14
in language 4
----, Paradigmatic 7, 15
Juxtaposition in language 3
Language, Evolution of 3-16
----, Processes of 3-8
Modal particles 13
Mode in Indian tongues 12
Modification, how accomplished 7
Mutation, Vocalic 5
Nouns in Indian tongues 11
Paradigmatic inflection 7, 15
Particles, Adverbial 13
----, Modal 13
----, Pronominal 13
----, Tense 13
Placement, Process of 6-8
Prepositions in Indian tongues 11
Processes of language 3-8
Pronominal particles 13
Pronouns in Indian languages 9
Speech, Differentiation of parts of 8
Syntactic relation, how accomplished 7
Tense
in Indian tongues 12
particles 13
Verbs
in English language 14
in Indian tongues 10, 11
Vocalic mutation in language, Process of 5
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