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CHAPTER 11.
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE.
Of all those rude Gaelic expedients, still
so largely used to express the grammatical
relations of words in a sentence, I shall
begin with one which, without being parti-
cularly striking, has the advantage of being
simple. Notably conspicuous in Gaelic, it
has moreover the further advantage, for
the purpose in hand, of being still to some
extent traceable in almost every other
language with which I am acquainted.
And, as will appear farther on, it is the
mother-form of a vast and varied linguistic
progeny. This is the simple expedient
whereby, in Gaelic, we indicate which one,
of two or more objects in the same sentence,
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE.
Of all those rude Gaelic expedients, still
so largely used to express the grammatical
relations of words in a sentence, I shall
begin with one which, without being parti-
cularly striking, has the advantage of being
simple. Notably conspicuous in Gaelic, it
has moreover the further advantage, for
the purpose in hand, of being still to some
extent traceable in almost every other
language with which I am acquainted.
And, as will appear farther on, it is the
mother-form of a vast and varied linguistic
progeny. This is the simple expedient
whereby, in Gaelic, we indicate which one,
of two or more objects in the same sentence,
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| Description | Celtic footprints in philology ethics and religion. |
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| Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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