Classical Philology
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ISBN13: 9780217814775
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CLAUSES OF WILLED RESULT By Frank H. Fowler It is the purpose of the present paper to point out the interrelations of certain ut and ne clauses existing in Latin. Incidentally the paper is a protest against two tendencies seen in recent syntactical investigation, both productive of confusion and error: (1) the tendency in the setting up of categories under which clauses may be classified to neglect ideas expressed other than the one taken as the distinguishing mark of the category,1 and (2) the tendency to seek for a separate origin in parataxis for every category set up.8 A sentence such as Ne deterius huic sit expresses the will or the wish of the speaker in opposition to some act or state. Such a sentence may be uttered without the consciousness of any relation between it and a preceding sentence, notwithstanding the fact that in the psychological process back of the expressions some relation necessarily existed. When, however, the speaker does become conscious of a relation and expresses it, it will be some particular relation and not relation in general. Our initial task, then, is the discovery of the relation or relations which might come to be recognized as existing between a ne sentence and its antecedent, which relation then might come to be actually expressed when the ne sentence came to be felt as subordinate. Two cases may be distinguished. (1) The verb of the accompanying sentence might be one capable of taking a ne sentence with its volitive or optative meaning as an inner object or inner subject. With clauses resulting from the recognition of such a relation we are not here concerned. (2) If the verb of the accompanying sentence was one not capable of taking a ne sentence as an inner object or inner subject, no relation could be recognized unless the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217814775 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217814778 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 330 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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