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APRIL, 1902.)
THEORY OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR.
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Remarks.
Subjects: 1. woju heca wan,
2. (combined with predicate), 3. ap 4. (combined with predicate),
• 5. mahpiya okinyanpi kin. Predicates: 1. taku su kin oju iyaya,
2. woju, 3. canku icahda hinlipaya, 4. naatinzapi, 5. temyapi.
Integers: iyaya, woju,2 hinkpaya, naatinzapi,
temyapi. Indicators : woju, taku, apa, canku, okinyanpi. Predicators : (included in integers). Explicators : heca, wan, su, kin, malpiya kin. Illustrators: Connectors : unkan, icahda, unkan, a. Referent Conjunctors : Referent Substitutes : Introducers: oju.
It is evident from the foregoing that the first principles of the Theory can be applied to any of the Languages, although some of them (e. g. the Anam) make great use of ellipses, whilst others (e. g. the Motu) are somewhat tautological,
The second part of Colonel Tomple's discussion relates to the functions of words as indicated by their form. The stem of a word may be simple, consisting only of the root, or be modified by radical affixes to form a compound stem. Qualitative affixes indicate the function of the word and the class to which it belonge, and they may be prefixed, infixed, or suffixed, either separably or inseparably.
The following tables, therefore, give a list of all the roots and stems used in the foregoing examples, with lists of the affixes by which their funotions are indioated. It is here necessary to observe that the list of roots or stems which are Indicators, does not necessarily coincide with the list of Indicators which are used in the examples, for by the action of the affixes they may fulfil the functions of Explicators, Illustrators or other classes of word. The same observation applies to all the lists of roots.
Two other tables are added. The first shows Intromutations in the form of words in some of the Languages. The second gives a list of Beduplioations,
I. TABLES OF ROOTS AND STEMS.
Indicators.
Indica
Meaning,
English
Hungarian.
Latin.
Khasi.
Anam.
Ashanti.
man, person ... seed ... ... seed ... time ...
ember magvat köz...
nong ... symbai ... giông, hốt | aba
il semen
khi
thing ...
some
némelly
... aliu
via
ut
part ... path ...
way... side
side ... bird ... fowl... upper regions
lynti | | đu'ong ...) kwai rud ... ngoại ...| nkyen sim chim ... noma byneng ... trên, troi | wyim
madar ...eg ...
voluer ... coel ...
...
