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How Dead Languages Work
Buch von Coulter H. George
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198852827
ISBN-10: 0198852827
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: George, Coulter H.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 158 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Coulter H. George
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,497 kg
preigu-id: 117888034
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198852827
ISBN-10: 0198852827
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: George, Coulter H.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 158 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Coulter H. George
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,497 kg
preigu-id: 117888034
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