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dently to assert that the Demonstrative
Pronouns in all Indo-European languages,
are formed from ta, i, and ya. He holds,
moreover, that all true prepositions can
be referred to a pronominal origin. The
former statement M. Reinach, in a courte-
ous letter with which he has favoured me,
frankly admits to be " too absolute," and he
informs me of his intention to modify it in
the forthcoming new edition of his very
learned work. Adding sa and a, however,
these two statements of M. Reinach's may
be taken as, in the main, not very far from
the truth. And it was while endeavouring,
in a tentative way, to test the theory which
they enunciate, and to fill up its numerous
lacunae with materials drawn from the rich
and varied intercompoundings, in Gaelic,
of Preposition and Pronoun, that my atten-
tion was first engaged in the linguistic
significance of the facts now to be set
forth.
At first, however, I shall, for the sake of
simplicity, deal with the linguistic affinities,
not at all of Pronoun and Preposition, but