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osition at another time the subject of a special investigation, 
in the meantime I accept, without a search for explanation, the 
presumable fact, that prepositions do not hybridize. 
Of the remaining parts of speech—the noun, the adjective, 
the adverb and the verb—each may cooperate with every other 
in the production of dual hybrid forms; or, figuratively speak¬ 
ing no longer, the double syntax of a word may give it rank 
as dominantly any one of the above four parts of speech, and 
subordinately any other—and vice versa. 
Accordingly, the following forms may occur: 
(1) Nominal adjective, a. 
(2) Nominal adverb, b. 
(3) Nominal verb, c. 
(4) Adjectival noun, a. 
(5) Adjectival adverb, d. 
(6) Adjectival verb, e. 
(7) Adverbial noun, b. 
(8) Adverbial adjective, d. 
(9) Adverbial verb, /. 
(10) Verbal noun, c. 
(11) Verbal adjective, e. 
(12) Verbal adverb, /. 8 
Of these, however, some 9 do not appear except in expressions 
s The pairs of hybrid forms obtained from a single pair of species 
are indicated by the repeated letters on the right. 
9 (1) Nominal Adjective: “These ribbons are the red you like so 
much.” This hybrid is not to be confused with the usual noun es¬ 
pecially employed as adjective only; e. g., “an oak stick.” 
(2) Nominal Adverb: “I like him the little you expected.” Follow¬ 
ing the method used in the examination of relatives, I find the quantita¬ 
tive “little”, in dominant syntax, adjunctive to “like”— i. e., adverbial— 
while serving in subordinate syntax as a noun, the object of “ex¬ 
pected.” 
(3) Nominal Verb: “The manufacturer donble-distills this alcohol.” 
In this expression “double” may be regarded not as a merely acci¬ 
dental variant of the adverb “doubly”, but as strictly an adjective 
posing the (for “manufacturer” and “alcohol”) verbal “distills”, as 
for itself (“double”) a substantive—as may indeed be done by any at¬ 
tribute, with that to which it is attributive. 
(4) Adjectival Noun: “The young the saleswomen are amazes me”— 
a common Spanish construction, the article used with “young” being 
