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§ 16. Classes of Words 



The lines of demarcation between classes of words are vague, because 

 a great many of the inflectional and derivative endings (sufiixes) are 

 common to words that we are accustomed to consider as belonging to 

 separate classes, such as nouns and verbs. On the other hand, we 

 can not assert that the evolution of this language has not tended 

 toward a fixed grouping of some of the suffixes around certain classes 

 of words (e. g., demonstratives; temporal particles; the terms i and 

 thou; whole and alone). No doubt the Eskimo language shows 

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