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. 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.