New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin - Brossura

Sihler, Andrew L

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195373367 ISBN 13: 9780195373363

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Riassunto

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics - the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Andrew L. Sihler is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Contenuti:

• Abbreviations
• PART I: Introduction
• The Indo-European Family of Languages
• Greek
• Latin and the Italic Languages
• The Greek and Latin Signaries
• Notes on Citation and Transcription
• PART II: Phonology
• Vowels and Dipthongs
• Vowel Gradation
• Consonants
• Stops
• Laryngeals
• Pie
• Liquids, Nasals, and Changes in Groups of Consonants
• Accent
• PART III: Declension
• Parts of Speech
• Indo-European Nominals
• Nouns
• Declension of Adjectives
• Comparison of Adjectives
• PART IV: Pronouns
• Personal Pronouns
• Demonstrative Interrogative
• PART V: Numerals
• Prepositions
• PART VI: Conjugation
• Survey of the Pie System
• Eventive Verbs
• Present Classes in Greek
• Present Classes in Latin
• The Verb 'Be' in Greek and Latin
• Durative Eventive Preterite
• Future
• Punctual Eventive
• Stative Verbs
• Moods in Proto-Indo-European
• Non-Finite Forms
• Indexes

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195373367
• ISBN 13: 9780195373363
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 712