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APRIL, 1902.]
THEORY OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR.
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III. - Table of Intromutations,
Mutation.
Meaning.
Language.
Root.
Word in text.
a to e
Past tense
English...
O.
e to ii (ivi) ...
euphony
Hungarian completed action. Latin ... plural ... .. completed action. euphony
fall tread mag-vet ex-e-o ... volucris ... cad-o ... esulwe ... umhwayela
E
Kefir
fell trodd
mag-vát ex-ii-t volucres ce-cid-it esulwini ekuhwayeleni umhwayeli manidina mamafy manawur, panawar. matesala upillikan
- C
... Malagasy
E
:
:
Ston a to e u to i (?)
sidy (sidina)
fafy .. ...sawur ...
mata ... .
upulliko
Old Ngadju ... Mota .. ... Awabakal
composition
(?
...
IV. - Table of Reduplications.
Meaning.
Language.
Simple form.
Form
in text.
cado
Completed action repetition ... intensity ... explication
Latin ... Malagasy Motu ...
hitga
roho
Mortlock
cecidit hitsakitsaka roboroho malemal susu aniani
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Mota
...
."
savur ...
Faysavur
continuance continuance onomatopoetic intensity ...
...(ma) ...
...Samoan
mamas lulu
... lue
...
...
The final section of Colonel Temple's paper discusses the classes of languages as shown by their variation in forms of words, position of words in the sentence, or a combination of form and position. The principles of classification are as follows:
. 1. Syntactioal Languages. (Position of words indicates meaning.) 2. Formative Languages. (Forms indicate meaning.) 8. Agglutinative. (Affixes without alteration.)
1. Pre-mutative. (With Prefix.) 2. Intro-mutative. (With Infix.)
3. Post-mutative. (With Suffix.) b. Synthetio. (Affixes with alteration.)
1. Pre-mutative. 2. Intro-matative.
3. Post-mutative. A language may belong primarily to one class and secondarily to another class.
