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a mode of simultaneity. Phonetic alphabetic culture strongly
tends to reduce inflection in favor of visual positional grammar.
Edward P. Morris has a lucid statement of this principle in On
Principles and Methods in Latin Syntax where the visual stress
appears as
movement toward the expression of relation by
single words. . . .
The general movement by which single words have
in part taken the place of inflection is the most sweeping
and radical change in the history of the Indo-European
languages. It is at once the indication and the result of a
clearer feeling of concept-relation. Inflection in the main
rather suggests than expresses relations ; it is certainly
not correct to say that in every case the expression of
relation by a single word, e.g., a preposition, is clearer