CHAPTER I.

ON SYNTAX IN GENERAL.

467. The term _syntax_ 392 468. What is _not_ syntax 392 469. What _is_ syntax 394 470. Pure syntax 395 471, 472. Mixed syntax 395 473. Figures of speech 395 474. Personification 395 475. Ellipsis 395 476. Pleonasm 395 477. Zeugma 397 478. [Greek: Pros to semainomenon] 397 479. Apposition 398 480. Collective nouns 398 481, 482. Complex forms 399 483. Convertibility 399 484. Etymological convertibility 400 485. Syntactic convertibility 400 486. Adjectives used as substantives 400 {xxxv} 487. Uninflected parts of speech used as such 400 488. Convertibility common in English 401