17 Nov. 1815

Chrestomathia or Language

§.1. Universal Grammar—its Nature and Divisions.

§.2. Its Uses—general and particular, viz. to Chrestomathia.

§.3. Why now teachable, to non-adults, tho’ not before.

§..4. Forms [of] language or Modes of signification readable, visible, and substitutes to d o.

§.5. Uses of language: primary and adventitious—Discoursing & thinking, communication & cognition.

§.5*. Properties desirable in language.

§.6. Of the arrangement of the matter of language—necessary basis d o of d o of thought.

§.7. Entities real & fictitious.

§.8. Contents of language—integral and fractional—propositions—sentences—words.

§.9. Terms of /in/ a proposition.

§.10. Prædication—verbal and real.

§.11. Parts of speech principal /essential/ and adjectitious /accessory/: essential those necessary to the forming of a proposition.

§.12. Modifications designated by the essential parts of speech in so far as modified, and by the adjectitious—Ideas to be designated—Signs employed in the designation of them.

§.13. On Government and Concord.

§.14. On Collocation, viz. in a proposition, a clause, and a sentence.