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The Theory of Language; Part I. of the Origin and General Nature of Speech. Part II. of Universal Grammar - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1788. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake, Could save the son of Thetis from to die: that is, The having been dipt in Lethe could not fave the son of Thetis from death. Some authors will have it, that there are also in language an Interrogative mood, expressing a desire of verbal information; and a Requisitive, expressing a desire of being assisted or gratified. And this last they subdivide into two species, the Precative, when we address a superiour, and the Imperative, when we command an inseriour. But such a multiplying of moods appears to be unneceflary. The Requisitive differs not inform from the Imperative*. The Interrogative is commonly expressed, not by any form of the verb contrived on purpose, but by a particular arrangement of the words, as It is so: Is it sot--or by the addition of some particle, as EJl verum: eflne verum? or merely by a change in the emphasis or tone of the speaker, as, I didJb-: You did? meaning, Df4 you so indeed?--And it is well observed,, by the learnJ ed and accurate Ruddiman, "that if we will "constitute as many moods, as there are '** various modifications wherewith a verb or "affirmation may be affected, we must mul*' tiply them to a very great number; and, ** besides the Indicative, Subjunctive, Poten * In Hebrew, an earnest request is signified by adding to the Imperative the particle na; as Ho/anna, Savt, I be-* jeech thee. « tiaL impossible to prove, by any just reasoning, that it has any title to the name of mood, or even to be considered as a part of the .verb. In fact, we might repeat, in regard to Moods, a remark formerly made on the degrees of comparison of adjectives. Their number is in nature indefinite: but as nothing in language can be so, it is more convenient to reduce them to two or three, which by means o...
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