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[The long forms (ahtoie, haloian, uuacoiande, etc.) of verbs of the second weak conjugation in Old Saxon are not of IE origin as is generally supposed, but owe their existence to an attempt to make a sharper formal distinction between indicative and subjunctive by adding the subjunctive endings of the first or jan-class to the stem of the second class. The extension of the long forms to the infinitive and present participle was due in part to the metrical advantages of these forms in certain types of alliterative verse.]
The two papers on Mandarin phonology by C. F. Hockett which appeared in 1947 and 1950 are exemplary cases of post-Bloomfieldian linguistics at its best. They demonstrate clearly the insight to be gained by intelligent analysis which is independent of traditional work while not ignorant of it.
The contribution of Hockett's analysis and its high degree of independence from particular sectarian bias about how languages must be analyzed is shown by the fact that one can use his phonemes in writing generative phonological rules which take relative ordering as a substantive property of language, in spite of the striking difference between such a framework and that used by Hockett in the articles cited.
[A morphological and syntactic analysis of Ḫurrian verb forms reveals three verbal types: an action-verb (interpreted as active, in opposition to Speiser) and two kinds of impersonal-intransitive verb. See the concluding paragraphs.]