New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

Zusammenfassung 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. Informationen zum Autor Andrew L. Sihler is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics! University of Wisconsin! Madison. Klappentext 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.

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

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Like Carl Darling Buck's once standard 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. In addition, Andrew Sihler discusses the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Incorporating the considerable scholarship of the sixty years since Buck's edition appeared, this thoroughly new and up-to-date study fully integrates laryngeals in both the phonology and morphology, and the Indo-European verb system is presented in terms radically unlike Buck's. 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. In order to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible, Sihler presents some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, discusses reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin 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. A necessity for specialists and students with an interest in the foundations of classical languages, Sihler's study fills a major gap in theliterature of the last sixty years.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

• 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