Excerpt from University of California Publications in Classical Philology, Vol. 8: 1924-1928 Attempts to picture pre-literary conditional speaking have been curiously warped by theories as to the function of the moods in indo-european. Even today a certain vogue attaches to the rather naive view that, from the very outset, the moods were sharply differentiated in use, each being restricted to a special range of meaning. This assumption postulates an 'o-riginal' or 'fundamental' meaning for each mood; and the investigator sets himself the task of relating all uses of the historical period to these presupposed original or fundamental meanings. 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.