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.
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.
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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
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
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