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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY..
(JULY, 1907.
into Agglutinative Languages, attaching affixes in an unaltered form, and Synthetic Languages, attaching them in an altered form. These two classes are both fartber naturally divisible into (1) Premutative, (2) Intromutative, (3) Postmutative Languages, acoording as they attach affixes as prefixos, infixes or suffixes.
In obedience to a fundamental Law of Nature, no language has ever developed along a single line, and therefore every language belongs of necessity primarily to one of the above classes, and secondarily to others, by partial adoption of their methods.
Languages, varying the form, tones or position, without varying the meanings, of their words, form naturally Connected Languages in the relation of parent and offshoot. Connected Languages, whose stems, i.e., the meanings of whose words, are common to all, form a natural Group of Languages, and those Connected Languages, whose roots, i.e., the original meanings of whose words, are common to all, form a natural Family of Languages. Therefore also of necessity all Connected Languages belonging to a Group belong to the same Family.
As the above method of expounding the Theory involves the use of unfamiliar terms, it is as well to state that the new and the old terms of Grammar roughly, though not exactly, correspond as follows; it being remembered that the old terms are themselves the outcome of another tacit Theory, based upon other observations of natural laws or phenomena.
Tablo of Comparative Grammatical Terms. ola.
Nere. Noun.
Indicator. Adjective.
Explicator. Verb.
Predicator.
Illustrator, Adverbs of different classes.
1 Introducer. Preposition. Postposition.
Connector. Conjunction, Interjection.
Integer. Pronoun. Relative Adverb.
Referent Substitute. Relative Particle. Gender, Number, Case. Declension.
Inflexion of different kinds. Person, Mood, Tengo. Conjugation. Concord, Agreement.
Correlated Variation. Government.
Intimate Relation.
DIAGRAM I. Explaining the Lines upon which the Theory is worked out. Prisciple of the Development of the Sentence out of its Components.
In all speech the meaning of words (incomplete meanings )
combined
S
nment.
with their position
with their
forms
with their
tones
with their
forms or tones and position
completes the
sentence (complete meaning ).
