ABSTRACT
Affectivity in language is generally expressed in two ways: by the choice of words and by the position they occupy in the sentence. That is to say, vocabulary and syntax are the two principal resources of affective language. Logically organized grammatical language is never, as a fact, independent of affective language. Even grammatical categories are sometimes expressed by means of a procedure belonging to affective language. The truth is that there are languages in which the word-order plays a grammatical role, and in which freedom of word-order is naturally held in check by the morphological value of the process. Word-order, even in languages like Greek and Latin, appears to be far more definitely fixed than people should have thought at first sight. In languages where the word-order is fixed, but has no morphological value, the considerations that led to its being fixed are generally revealed upon a careful examination of the conditions of the language itself.
