How Dead Languages Work
(Sprache: Englisch)
Different languages have different personalities, and there is a lot that can be lost in translation. This volume offers an engaging and accessible introduction to six ancient and medieval languages, introducing their most distinctive features and showing...
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Different languages have different personalities, and there is a lot that can be lost in translation. This volume offers an engaging and accessible introduction to six ancient and medieval languages, introducing their most distinctive features and showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „How Dead Languages Work “
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Greek
- The sounds of Greek
- Word-forms
- The Iliad
- Formulas
- Thucydides and abstract language
- Pauline prepositions
- 3: Latin
- How Latin works
- Lucretius
- Horace and Housman
- Tacitus
- 4: Old English and the Germanic Languages
- Grimm's Law and umlaut
- Verbs, strong and weak
- Old English
- Beowulf
- 5: Sanskrit
- The sounds of Sanskrit
- Sandhi
- Nouns in Sanskrit
- The Rig Veda
- How to kill a dragon
- The hidden names of the dawn-cows
- 6: Old Irish and the Celtic Languages
- The eccentricities of the Irish language
- Old Irish in action
- Welsh
- 7: Hebrew
- The sounds of Semitic
- How Semitic words change shape
- Let there be light
- Noun chains
- 8: Epilogue and Further Reading
- Endmatter
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Coulter H. George
Coulter H. George is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. The author of Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek (CUP, 2005) and Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek (CUP, 2014), he has also taught at Rice University and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Coulter H. George
- 2020, 224 Seiten, Masse: 15,8 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198852827
- ISBN-13: 9780198852827
Sprache:
Englisch
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