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D. Classification of Articles and Disser

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Among the facts set forth in the preceding tables, a few are worthy of special comment.

The verb has received, it would appear, rather more than its due share of attention. Since 1889, when Reussner constructed the excellent outline for verb-syntax which has been adopted at Leipzig, six other dissertations, presenting the syntax of the verb in as many Old English poems, have been built from his plans. But all these, and many more among them some very excellent ones, as those of Kühn, Fleischhauer and Köhler - are only fragments, often suggestive, but useful mainly as furnishing materials to later and riper investigators; so far as their statements are trustworthy, they save much of the labor of collection. In Table C there are twenty titles under the verb; other dissertations in which the verb is included would bring the number to thirty; — and we are still waiting for a good comprehensive account of Old English verb-syntax. A beginning has been made in the works of Callaway, Gorrell, Lüttgens, and Mather; we may hope that others, following their lead, will give us further sections, equally well done, until the many parts may be combined into the complete handbook which we need.

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