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Edmonds, J. M.

 
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Originally published in 1906, this book was originally intended as a guide for students beginning their university studies in Classics.

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Originally published in 1906, this book was originally intended as a guide for students beginning their university studies in Classics. Edmonds includes charts and tables illuminating the development of Indo-European languages, and uses examples from Greek and Latin literature to illustrate key philological points.

Contenuti

1. Language and the study of language; 2. The mechanism of speech, and the classification of sounds; 3. Accent; 4. Spelling and pronunciation, with a sketch of the history of our alphabet; 5. The Aryan language and its descendants; 6. Change; 7. Vowel gradation; 8. Grimm's law and the exceptions to it; 9. Sounds which have developed differently in Greek and Latin; 10. Sketch of the history of comparative philology; List of books useful to the student of comparative philology; Index of phonetic symbols; Greek index; General index.

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