Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre

* 369 too short to justify this departure from his usual rule, and is therefore misleading and inadequate. It is a question of the common modern reton word-order in a simple sentence : subject + a (meaningless particle) + verb in the third person singular. This is what Welsh gramsentence, the normal order being verb + marians now call an abnorm hat th.is abnormal order developed from subject $- object. We kno a very old construction in the Celtic languages where he order was: subject + object + verb. If the object were a personal pronoun the particle LEwaLsused to infix it. This use of a spread to sentences of sit was a noun. Side by side with this abnormilar type where the o mal order was onto of si form in which the subject or object appeared at the beginning of t sentence for emphasis (in the older periods preceded by the copula). Since the emphasised words were either subject or object they were follow-cd by a ‘proper’ relative sentence. We call this emphasising type a ‘mixed’ sentence. The ‘generalized relative’ or abnormal order is common in Welsh literature of all periods, but in modern times it has not become so regular a feature of the language as it has in Rreton and Corn&h. Dr. Hardie’s account of the ‘generalized relative’ is misleading since he suggests that it is merely a watered down version of the ‘mixed’ sentence described above, are quite diswithout its emphatic character. The two constructions tinct, although it must be remembered that they probably interacted very closely. ently and intelligibly The Handbook is a mine of information, co e least of its virtues presented and it will supply a longfelt want, n being the wealth of illustrative phrases and sentences. The Oxford University Press demonstrates once again its technical mastery of this type of book. .

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