ABSTRACT
The still entirely intuitive expression of a pure action prepares for the future intellectual expression of pure relations. Farthest removed from the primary stage of temporal intuition are ultimately those linguistic expressions that already presuppose for their formation a form of time measurement, which thus seizes time as a precise determinate value of quantity. With the development of personal pronouns, the domain of subjective being has separated in linguistic expression from that of the objective domain, and yet it combines the expression for the subjective being with that for the objective events in the inflection of the verb into a new unity. Nevertheless, neither the temporal nor the personal determination, neither the temporal nor the personal fixation of the verbal expression, belongs to its initial basic existence; rather, both refer to a goal that is attained only relatively late in the development of language.
