It may also be objected that the absolute distinction established by Schlegel was criticized very shortly afterwards by Bopp: where Schlegel saw two types of language that were radically inassimilable to one another, Bopp searched for a common origin; he attempts to establi that inﬂections are not a sort of internal and spontaneous development of the primitive element, but particles that have been agglomerated to the root syllable: the of the first person in Sanskrit (bhav mi) or the of the third person (bhav ti) are the effect of the adjunction to the verbal root of the pronoun or the pronoun (he).