The Dative of Agency: A Chapter of Indo-European Case-Syntax (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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In attempting to secure for my subject a certain degree of com pleteness in treatment, I have not shrunk from rehearsing many otherwise well-known and firmly established facts of philology. A reconstructive essay, however favorably circumstanced with respect to illustrative matter, must still labor under a disadvantage in that it lacks the authentic actuality of the more tangible work. In the present case I have in addition been Often confronted with that curious situation Of comparative paucity of decisive instances which not infrequently robs the argument of its cogency. Many Of the changes involved in the discussion must have taken place long prior to any literature we possess, and the remnants Of even these earliest linguistic documents are lamentably few. The Obvious necessity then of overcoming in the largest possible measure such unavoidable defects is the reason for what may appear to be prolixity.

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