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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460323103321

Autore

Sihler Andrew L

Titolo

New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew L. Sihler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-282-97774-1

9786612977749

0-19-970642-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (711 p.)

Disciplina

485

Soggetti

Greek language - Grammar, Comparative - Latin

Latin language - Grammar, Comparative - Greek

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English, Greek, and Latin.

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Phonology -- pt. III. Declension -- pt. IV. Pronouns -- pt. V. Numerals -- pt. VI. Conjugation.

Sommario/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