Modern Language Notes, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
Excerpt from Modern Language Notes, Vol. 17 Baltimore, January, 19 O 2.Is We The Plural Of I? There are few of us, I imagine, who have not of late repeatedly encountered the assertion that we is not the plural of I. In most cases, I dare say, the statement is allowed to lapse without debate, as a mere intellectual subtlety, of no practical importance in grammar, even if it were true. But the discovery is claimed by so many different persons, 1 is seconded by so many names of authority, and is apt to be announced with such assurance of its originality, profundity, and importance that we seem challenged either to speak our objections now, or ever after hold our peace. The arguments brought forward to support this novel proposition may be summarized as follows: 1.We, nos, rftfT?, etc., in our Indo-European tongues are apparently not derived from the same root as that found in the singular, ego, etc. There is therefore a presumption against regarding those words as in any sense the plurals of these.2. We is not even a plural at all, but only a multiple; for a plural is a group whose units are alike in kind, whereas the units which compose this group are diverse in kind, including for example, thou, and he.3. represents a conception absolutely unique, and can therefore have no plural. There simply can be no plural, says Prof. Owen, of that of which there is but one. Such is the determined assault; let us see what may be offered in the way of defence. I. As to the first point, it may be noted that whatever force there may be in the presumption that because and we are etymologically dissociated, they cannot be associated as memi I am not at the present moment so circumstanced as to be able to trace the discovery to its first announcement; nor, if I were, should I think it worth the while. The statement is found, without indication of its source, in Prof. Sweets New English Grammar, Part I, a text-book which has been in use some dozen years or more, and I have read its anno
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