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untoJerated. These subdivisions coincide with the gi-ammatical 

 classes known respectively as ''indefinites" and ''interrogatives/^ 



Grammar has further created a special pronominal group for 

 what are known as reflexives. In the fuller discussion of the 

 vicarious words it will appear that the reflexives are members 

 of that class, distinguishable from the others merely by the 

 somewhat restricted range of their employment. They require, 

 therefore, no immediate examination. 



The last of the grammatical pronoun-classes, the relatives, 

 offer, on the other hand, peculiarities so extreme as to embarrass 

 any merely introductory characterization. Deferring, there- 

 fore, their examination, I offer, in resumption of results thus far 

 obtained, the following table of word-classes. 



Words. 



Self-sufficient or 

 Initiative. 



Insufficient or 

 Vicarious. 



Deflnitej 



Indpfinites 



I I 



Absolutes. Ecocentrics. 



Pseu- 



do- 



pro- 



nouns 



Pronouns. 



I 



Alincau- 

 Linguacausate sate Tolerated Untolerated 

 or or or or 



"Personal." "Demon- "Indefinite." "Interrogative." 

 ptrativo " 



Proepective, 

 Retrospective, 

 including Reflexive. 



To a careless view this table might suggest the inference that the 

 words of the several ultimate groups (linguacausate, etc.) outnumber 

 the members of the single division of absolutes, the single title of the 

 latter tending somewhat to mask their number. But were the abso- 

 lutes also put to the torture, to wrest from them the secret of their dif- 

 ferences, an overwhelming multitude of subdivisions would develop, 

 each including an ample membership.^ The absolutes comprise, in fact, 

 the vast majority of every vocabulary; the half dozen grammatical pro- 

 noun-classes, and especially the true pronouns, contain but an insignifi- 

 cant minority. 



Proposing now a more detailed examination of the word- 

 classes thus far roughly sketched, I follow the order of con- 



^For illustration examine any general classification of words according to 

 their meaning, e. g., Koget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 



