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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777020003321

Titolo

The ancient languages of Europe / / edited by Roger D. Woodard [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-316-08526-0

1-281-37066-5

9786611370664

0-511-39428-4

0-511-39352-0

0-511-39221-4

0-511-39097-1

0-511-48681-2

0-511-39493-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

417/.7094

Soggetti

Extinct languages - Europe

Historical linguistics

Europe Languages History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Editor's foreword Roger D. Woodard; 1. Language in ancient Europe: an introduction Roger D. Woodard; 2. Attic Greek Roger D. Woodard; 3. Greek dialects Roger D. Woodard; 4. Latin James P.T. Clackson; 5. Sabellian languages Rex E. Wallace; 6. Venetic Rex E. Wallace; 7. Etruscan Helmut Rix; 8. Continental Celtic Joseph F. Eska; 9. Gothic Jay H. Jasnoff; 10. Ancient Nordic Jan Terje Faarlund; Appendix 1. Indo-European Henry M. Hoenigswald, Roger D. Woodard and James P.T. Clackson; Appendix 2. Full table of contents from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area.



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 volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.