ABSTRACT
This is interesting, and Gabelentz's clever analysis from this point of view of the sentence "Habemus senatusconsultum in te vehemens et grave" might be quoted in any study of the psychological eflect of word-order; but the analogy between this and the subject-predicate relation is far too loose for the same name to be applied to both. Wegener's name" exposition" for what Gabelentz caBs psychological subject is much more to the point. But it should always be remembered that word-order in actual language is not exclusively determined by psychological reasons, but is often purely conventional and determined by idiomatic rules peculiar to the language in question and independent of the will of the individual speaker.
