The Sequence of Tenses in Latin; A Study Based on Caesar's Gallic War (Paperback)

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.1899 Excerpt: ... The Sequence of Tenses in Latin. An Investigation Based on Caesar's Gallic War. ISY ARTHUR TAPPAK WALKER. INTRODUCTION. The object of my investigation is to determine just how far the tenses of the subjunctive correspond in meaning and usage to those of the.indicative, and whether there is any mechanical "sequence of tenses" in the one mood which does not appear in the other. My theory of the uses of the tenses and the starting point of my investigation are furnished by Professor William Gardner Hale's papers on The Sequence of Tenses, in the American Journal of Philology, VII, 4 (1886); VIII, 1 (1887); IX, 2 (1888). In that study he takes the ground that the tenses of the Subjunctive always (or with very few exceptions) have their own meanings and that there is no such thing as a mechanical sequence of tenses. As will appear later, I am led to agree fully with the first half of this proposition; but the second half does not necessarily follow, and with it I can not agree. In a foot-note of his last paper Professor Hale makes the statement: "It has been my intention to prepare complete statistics of For these see A. J. P. VIII, pp. 54-58. This discussion of them ts summarized in A, J. V. IX, pp. 18-111 of reprint, as follows: "In a great number of cases of what is called the subjunctive 'by assimilation, ' the modal feeling which in the main clause expresses itself in the subjunctive of a certain tense continues to exist, either unchanged in kind, or oniy slightly shaded. in the clauses attached to it. and is therefore expressd by the same mode, and by a tense that indicates the same point of view. But the frequent recurrence of such examples gives rite to the occasional use of a dependent subjunctive with only a formal likeness to the main subjunctive, and...