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JULY, 1907.)
REOORD OF LANGUAGES OF BAVAGES.
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Also, since the words composing the parts of a sentence are placed in a position of relation to each other, this relation may be expressed in the sentence by the addition of connecting words expressing it or connectors, or by variation of the forms of the words themselves.
Also, since predicators are specially connected with indidators, explicators with indicators, illustrators and complements with predicators, and referent substitutes with their principals, there is an intimate relation between predicator and indicator, indicator and explicator, illustrator and predicator, predicator and complement, referent substitute and principal. This intimate relation may be expressed by the addition of connecting words to express it, or by correlated variation in the forms of the specially connected words or by their relative position or by their relative tones.
Since speech is a mode of communication between man and man by expression, that communication may be made complete without complete expression. Speech may, therefore, be partly expressed, or be partly left unexpressed. And since speech may be partly left unexpressed, referent words may refer to the unexpressed portions, and words may be related to unexpressed words or correlated to them. Referent substitutes may, therefore, indicate the subject of a sentence.
Again, many words may be used collectively to express the meaning of one word. The collective expression of a single meaning by two or more words is a phrase. The relation of a phrase to the word it represents is that of original and substitute. A phrase, therefore, fulfils the function of its original.
Since & phrase is composed of words 28d collectively to represent a single expression of a meaning, that meaning may be complete in itself. Therefore & phrase may be a sentence. A sentence substituted for & word is a clause. A clause, therefore, fulfils the function of its original.
Since clauses represent words, a sentence may be composed of clauses, or partly of clauses and partly of words. A sentence composed of clauses, or partly of clauses and partly of words, is a period.
Therefore a word is functionally either
(1) A sentence in itself or an integer, (9) An essential component of a sentence, or
(3) An optional component of a sentence.
The essential components of a sentence are (1) indicators, (2) explicators, (3) predicators, (4) illustrators, (5) complements. And complements are either indicators or explicators.
The optional components of a sentence are (1) introducers, (2) referents, (3) connectors. And referents are either referent conjunctors or referent substitutes. To recapitulate : Functionally a word is either
(1) An integer, or a sentence in itself. (2) An indicator, or indicative of the sabject or complement of a sentence. (3) An explioator, or explanatory of its subject or complement. (4) A predioator, or indicative of its predicato. (5) An illustrator, or illustrative of its predicate or complement, or of the explanation
of its subject or complement. (6) A connootor, or explanatory of the interrelation of its components. (7) An introducer, or explanatory of its purpose. (8) A referent oonjunotor, or explanatory of the interrelation of connected sentences
by joining them. (9) A referont substituto, or explanatory of the interrelation of connected sentences
by substitution of itself in the subordinate sentence for the word in the principal sentence to which it refers.
