Coulter H. George (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Un

Gebundenes Buch

How Dead Languages Work

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852827
• ISBN-10: 0198852827
• Artikelnr.: 58407943