The Preposition À, The Relation Of Its Meanings Studied In Old French, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Preposition À, The Relation Of Its Meanings Studied In Old French, Vol. 1: Dissertation Presented To The Board Of The University Studies Of The John Hopkins University For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, June 1898, SituationIn the work that follows, the author purposes to treat the French syntactical development of the preposition à from a strictly French point of view a treatment that up to the present has not been proposed. The method resorted to by grammarians of classifying and explaining syntactical phenomena in a given language by means of a system of parallel examples drawn from other languages, is linguistic opportunism, and as such bears upon its face the stamp of arbitrariness. The ad of French territory is essentially a unit of measure and, viewed in this light, falls naturally into two great divisions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.