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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
THE rapid progress of linguistic science during
the nine
years that have passed since this Grammar was first published
has necessitated considerable alteration and enlargement in a
new edition. Much has been discovered in the interval ;
much
that was then new and speculative has been accepted on all
sides ;
and much has been done in sifting
and combining the
results attained. The Morphologischen Untersuchungen of
Osthoff and Brugmann have been followed by Brugmann's
admirable summary of Greek grammar (in Iwan Muller's
Handbuch), and his comprehensive Grundriss der vergleichenden
Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen. Of three
portions of this work that have already appeared (Strassburg
1886-90-91), the last (treating chiefly of the Declensions)
came too late to be of service to the present book. The part
which deals with the Verb has not yet been published
: and the
volume on Comparative Syntax, promised by Delbruck the
first complete work on this part of the subject is also still to
come.
It will doubtless be a worthy sequel to the Altindische
Syntax, which now forms the fifth volume of his Syntaktische
Forschungen. Among other books which have appeared since
the publication of this Grammar, or which were not sufficiently
made use of for the first edition, I would mention Joh.
Schmidt's Pluralbildungen der indogermanischen Neutra
(Weimar 1889), G. Meyer's Griechische Grammatik (second
edition, Leipzig 1886), the new edition of Mr. Goodwin's
Moods and Tenses (London 1889), the treatises in Schanz's
series of Beitrdge zur historischen Syntax der griechischeri
Sprache, Aug. Tick's two books (see Appendix F), articles by
Wackernagel, Frb'hde and others in Kuhrts Zeitschrift and
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Bezzenberger
s Beitrdge, the long series of papers by Aug.