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The Loom of Language

Daigarno, G, 87, 444 ff, 494
Danish, 276 ff , see aho Scandinavian
Danish spelling, 237-8
dative, 117-18, 262, 314, 326
dative, German, 290
declensions, 36,115,118,201,267,326
declensions, Latin, 316-17, 319
definite article, 184, see also article
definite article, French, 352, 361
definite aiticle, Romance,  184, 331,
demonstratives, 90, 145, 157, 331
demonstratives, Latin, 329-32
demonstratives, Romance, 371 ff,
demonstratives, Teutonic, 274
Descartes, R, 444
dialect, 222
dictionary, use of, 34, 92
difficulties, in natural languages, 485
Dil, 459
diminutives, 401
direct method, 37-8
direct object, 118, 153-4
directives, 31, 39, 119, 134, see aho
prepositions
directives, associative, 147
directives, classification of, 143
directives, in interlanguage, 504-5
directives, instrumental, 145
directives, of motion, 144
directives, of place, 142
directives, of time, 146
doublets,  Latin-French, in English,
238-9
dual, 108-9, 262, 425
durative  construction,   139-40,  350,
387
Dutch, 194, 223, 283 ff
Dutch, Cape, see Afrikaans
Dutch grammar, 284-6
Dutch spelling, 236

Esperanto, 443, 453, 460-7
Esquimaux, language of, 195, 215
Esthoman, 193, 194, 200
Ethiopian, 194, 421, 424
Etruscan, 340
Etruscarr script, 77
evolution of languages, 23
Faiguet, 453
families of languages, 192 ff
families of languages, characteristics,
195 ff
Fijian, 194
Finnish, 161, 193, 194, 197-8, 408
Finno-Ugrian languages, 193,194,197
Flemish, 284, 346
flexional languages, 195, 196-205
flexions,   agglutinative   character of,
188
flexions, decay of, 121-2
flexions, in interlanguage, 487 ff
flexions, origins of, 203 ff
flexions, Sanskrit, 408-9
form and function, relation of, 169
Franks, 310
French, 194, 202, 203, 238 ff, 309 ff,
346-7, 349 ff, see also Romance
French, Canadian, 346
French, early, 312
French, German elements in, 310
French elements in English, 238
French,     Latin      book-words      in
modern, 238, 240
French pronunciation, 254-9, 357
French vowels, 256
future, 106, 184
future, French and Spanish, 391
future, German, 297-8
future, Latin and Romance, 338-9
future perfect, 322, 338
future, Rumanian, 339

editorship, self-, 171-3
education, auxiliary language and, 481
Egyptian, ancient, 193, 420 n
Egyptian writing, 61
Encydopedie> 453
English, 194, see Anglo-American
English, peculiarities of, 261
English speakers, why bad linguists,
15-16
Erse, 193, 194, 417
Esperantido, 467

G, in Romance languages, 259
G sounds, 229-30
Gaelic, Scots, 193, 194, 417
Galiaan, 343
Gaul, Latin in, 309-10
Ge'ez, 424
gender, 112-15, 14^ 184, 209, 213,
268
gender, German, 291-3
gender, Latin, 318-20, 327-8