Camb Encycl World Ancient Languages

Roger D. Woodard

ISBN 10: 0521562562 / ISBN 13: 9780521562560

Editore: Cambridge University Press

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages is the first comprehensive reference work treating all of the languages of antiquity. Clear and systematic in its approach, the Encyclopedia combines full linguistic coverage of all the well documented ancient languages, representing numerous language families from around the globe. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The Encyclopedia brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for linguistic professionals and students, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

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• Titolo: Camb Encycl World Ancient Languages
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN 10: 0521562562
• ISBN 13: 9780521562560
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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This Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work treating all of the languages of antiquity.

Informazioni sull?autore

Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics at the University of Buffalo. Among his other books are Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1997, Oxford); Ovid's Fasti (with A. J. Boyle, 2000, Penguin); and On Interpreting Morphological Change (1990, Gieben).