Blair Collection > Vestigia celtica

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
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Introductory : The old field of word-history and gram-
matical inflection : the virgin soil of rudimentary
sentence-building : the California of the philologist :
grammatical fossils and fossil-moulds are still alive and
plastic in Gaelic : the embryology and morphology of
language : the coin-forms of phrase and idiom are
suggestive of primitive thought, ..... 9
CHAPTER II.
The verbal perspective of sentence-building : the idea of
local proximity, or the "space idea": the brood-cell
of all gi'ammatical relations : the corresponding notional
distinctions : the locative case : from things in space to
deeds in time : the identity of the demonstrative pro-
nouns and adverbs of place in Gaelic, Irish, Manx,
Breton, Cornish, Welsh, and Old Irish, . . -17
CHAPTER III.
The Celt's first notions of property : it is at him, and,
therefore, his, while he keeps it there : the use in this
connection of aig, at, .30