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Excerpt from The Syntactical Causes of Case Reduction: In Old French As he himself states in the preface, it is but the first sec tion of a treatment which was to have embraced also the pronoun. For this reason it is terminated only bya summary having found that his material upon the pronoun furnished fuller and more conclusive testimony regarding the exact process and sequence of case reduction than could be obtained from the substantive alone, he had reserved the exposition of his conclusions until the complete data should have been pre sented. In connection with his work upon the substantive, he had also collected and in part classified his examples for the pronoun, but there is no indication among his papers that he had drafted his chapter of general conclusions. Professor Laubscher was already favorably known for his dissertation on the Past Tenses in French (1909) and for sub sequent book reviews in kindred domains. The present work demonstrates how solidly established was his interest in syn tactical study, and how steadily he was increasing his com mand of its various phases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.