This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... verbs is reached. This last verb, which is always the principal verb of the clause or sentence, invariably stands at the end of the clause or sentence. In the former case it is, when not in a modal, in what is termed the indefinite form; in the latter in what is known as the conclusive form. 'Suspensive' is a better ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... verbs is reached. This last verb, which is always the principal verb of the clause or sentence, invariably stands at the end of the clause or sentence. In the former case it is, when not in a modal, in what is termed the indefinite form; in the latter in what is known as the conclusive form. 'Suspensive' is a better designation than 'indefinite, ' for the form shows only that the meaning of the sentence is suspended until the final verb is reached. There is a third or 'attributive' form--more strictly, participial--when the verb precedes and qualifies a noun. Morphologically the suspensive is a stem-form, always ending in t or e. The roots of all verbs originally, no doubt, ended in a, and this is still the prominent vowol in most verbs, and these the most ancient--in them the stem-form ends in -. Verbs may therefore be classified into: a verbs having their stem-form in i but changing i into a in tbe negative and future forms (Mr. Chamberlain's 1st conjugation); e verbs which preserve e throughout (Mr. G.'s 2nd conj.); and j verbs preserving i throughout (Mr. C.'s 3rd and 4th conj.). The a verbs further differ from the e and i verbs in that the primary conclusive and attributive forms are identical; in the e and t verbs the attributive end in uru and iru respectively, and the conclusive in u, but in four monosyllabic1 i verbs (given below, and constituting Mr. C's 4th conj.) the conclusive and attributive forms both terminate in iru. Of these three classes the following paradigm shows the quasi-inflectional primary forms respectively: --Suspensive. Conclusive. Attributive. j-ya&t (burn) yaku (burn) yaku (burn) home (praise) homu komuru tugi (pass) sugu tuguru. 1 The most ancient words in Japanese and nearly all the verbs are dissyllabic, indeed bili...
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