Excerpt from A Semantic Study of the Verbs of Doing and Making in the Indo-European Languages: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy That such a vague, general notion as that' Of 'do' or make is secondary and rests upon some more specific force, is an as sumption demanded by all psychological probability and fully confirmed by linguistic evidence. The purpose of this dissertation is to show what are the various specific forces from which come the verbs Of doing and making in the indo-european languages. Attention is given primarily to the commonest words of this kind in the several languages, - those which are the usual equivalents of English do or make; and it is hoped that none Of these has been overlooked. But words in which such a general meaning is only occasional, the more specific sense being commonly preserved, as well as words which, though not verbs of doing and making in the strictest sense, come very near to this meaning, are equally instructive as showing the possibilities of development in this direction and many of these have been considered. In this regard, however, it is Obviously impossible to aim at completeness, which could be attained only in a study devoted to a single language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.