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Excerpt from Concerning the German Relatives After Neuter Substantivized Adjectives, Pronouns, or Antecedent Clause, and Concerning the German Indefinite Relatives in Eighteenth Century Prose: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faulty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
The aim of this dissertation is to test the current doctrines in regard to the use of relative pronouns after neuter substantivized adjectives, demonstrative, indefinite, and personal pronouns, and after a sentence or phrase used as antecedent, with an investigation into the prevailing doctrine regarding the indefinite relatives. A further aim of this in vestigation will be to determine, if possible, the exact usage of the relative after such antecedents as have been mentioned above. The period cov ered is the eighteenth century, though two earlier authors, Abraham de Sta Clara and Grimmelshausen, are added to throw additional light on the development, if any, that has been going on. The earliest editions available have been made use Of.
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