Capitolo 40
Under the head of syntax we have to satisfy us with only speaking of
two changes, but these were of vast course. We have already noticed the
analytical tendency of the Latin preliterary. This tendency was contained in control,
as we have observed as soon as, till now as they pertained to forms of verb, but in the
comparison of adjectives and in the use of the cases firmly it did
headway, and lately it triumphed on the synthetic principle. The
method adopted from Latin literary to point out the comparative one and the
superlative degrees of an adjective, adding the ends - the ior and
-respectively issimus succumbed in the end to the practice to premise,
more or magis and maxime to the positive form. To take another
illustration of the same characteristic of the popular Latin, as soon as the
time of Plautus, we see a tendency to adopt our modern method of
pointing out the relationship that a real bears to of the other word in
the sentence from he/she wants to say of a preposition rather than simply using a case
form. The happy-go-lucky Roman was tilted to say, for example de of parity of great
exercitu, rather than to use the genitive case of the word for army, great
exercitus of the parities. It perhaps seemed to him to reveal the relationship a
a little more clearly or forcedly.
The use of a preposition to show the relationship almost became a necessity
when the certain ending consonants became silent, because with them
disappearance and the reduction of the vowels to a quantity of uniform, it
it was often difficulty to distinguish among the cases. Since final - meter was
lost in pronunciation, it is probable that _Asia_ is nominative, accusative, or
ablative. If you desired to say that anything happened in Asia, it is able
you are not enough to use the simple ablative, because that form would have the
same pronunciation as the nominative or the accusative, Asia(m), but the
preposition must be premises, _in Asia_. Another factor cooperated with
those that have already been mentioned in to bring on the confusion of
the cases. The certain prepositions with the accusative were used for pointing out