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Excerpt from A Latin Grammar

This grammar aims to be a working text-book, primarily 'adapted to the needs of high school students.

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Excerpt from A Latin Grammar

This grammar aims to be a working text-book, primarily adapted to the needs of high school students.

The part which deals with Sounds, Inflection, and Word-Formation was written by the junior author, who is also mainly responsible for matters of orthography, hidden quantity, etc., throughout the book; the part which deals with Syntax, Word-Order, Versification, the Calendar, etc., and the suggestions with regard to Pronunciation in 35-40, were written by the senior author; but both parts have been worked over carefully and in detail by both authors.

In the Phonology, Inflection, and Word-Formation, the authors have been conservative in the introduction of matters of comparative grammar. In general they have aimed to give only such historical explanations as are certain and reasonably simple, and deal with the relations between existing Latin forms, not with the relations between a Latin form and one of another language. For example, the statement that original final i became e (44, 3) would not be made, if it were useful only in understanding the relation between Latin ante and Greek dvri, but is introduced because, aside from the existence of the original form in anti-cipo, it explains why the Nominative Accusative Singular Neuter of an i-stem (e.g. mare) ends in e.

While, then, only a limited amount of historical grammar has been included, pains have been taken to frame whatever statements are made as to the relations of forms in the light of our knowledge of the actual historical development, so that, while not always expressed or arranged in the way one would adopt in a strictly historical grammar, they may serve as a sound foundation for possible further study, instead of fostering wrong conceptions which must be overcome later.

Questions of pronunciation, hidden quantity, orthography, etc., have received careful and independent study, though space does not permit the presentation of the arguments in favor of the views adopted. Departures from the usual practice in such matters may cause some temporary difficulty to the teacher; but this cannot justify the authors in perpetuating what they believe to be errors.

No attempt is made to treat early Latin fully, but some of its most striking peculiarities are mentioned.

In the Syntax, the probable relationships of the constructions treated are indicated by the arrangement.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.