id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18818 Powell, John Wesley On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 .txt text/plain 6696 349 62 entering into combination to form the new word is somewhat changed--the words are used to form cases in nouns, and a variety of illustrations is, to indicate mode, tense, number, person, gender, etc., of verbs, When words are combined by compounding, the formative elements cannot but in those languages where article pronouns are not found the verbs languages to form new words with which to express new ideas. In English the relation of words is expressed both by placement idea expressed by the word inflected; thus a noun is qualified by case the verb is used for the noun, and in so doing the Indian names the Thus the verb of an Indian language contains within itself incorporated In some languages the article pronoun constitutes a distinct word, but pronoun, and for mode and tense in the verb, to that extent the parts of voice of the verb, the English language has undifferentiated parts of ./cache/18818.txt ./txt/18818.txt