Review for Language, Its Nature, Development, and Origin : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
Language, Its Nature, Development, and Origin info
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...eat, mo ti manzi I ate, mo fine manzi I have eaten, mo fine fini I have finished. Further, there is a curious use of apri to express what in English are called the progressive or expanded tenses: mo apri manzi I am eating, mo ti apri manzi I was eating, and of pour to express the immediate future: mo pour manzi I am going to eat, and finally an immediate past may be expressed by fik: mo fik manzi I have just been eating (je ne fais que de manger). As these may be combined in various wars (mo va fine manzi I shall have eaten, even mo ti va fik manzi I should have eaten a moment ago, etc.), the language has really succeeded in building up a very fine and rich verbal system with the simplest possible means and with perfect regularity. The French separate negatives have been combined
