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IV. Present Participles.
Present participles form connections with
substantives, with adjectives, and sometimes with particles. The
most important of these groups is the first one, which shows
two subdivisions: the compound has its source in a verb
and its direct object [type: bastard-bearing]; or the relation
between the verb and the noun is a prepositional one
[type: night-warbling].
It seems to me absolutely certain that these
compounds are greatly influenced by the classical languages,
where participles played quite another role than in modern
languages.
The material I have collected does not reach any very
high figure in the non-substantival groups, and the
greatest part of it falls under the first category of substantive
compounds. If these cases are examined, some rather
striking facts will come to light. While the first series of
Poems and Ballads» gives almost no new formations, vol.
II, the Hellenic dramas, and the little volume < Songs of
the Springtides* give more than twenty; in all these
volumes (altogether they comprise some 400 pages) the
classical influence is most clearly perceptible. In
the later volumes, especially ^Tristram of Lyonesse», this
type increases in number, but does not reach the level of
the volumes just named.
While the second group of substantive compounds
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