ABSTRACT
It was originally my plan after the first volume of this work, which deals with sounds and spellings, to go on to Morphology, and finally to Syntax - these two terms taken in the sense explained in my Progress in Language, 1894, p. 141, and again below, p. 1. My reasons for now deviating from this order and bringing out the syntactical before the morphological part, are partly of a purely personal character. When I took up work again after a rest necessitated by overstrain during a nine months’ stay in America, I wanted something pleasurable to do and thought Syntax more attractive than Morphology; consequently I let my extensive preparatory work on endings, etc., lie undisturbed in my drawers….
