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

How Dead Languages Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852827
• ISBN-10: 0198852827
• Artikelnr.: 58407943

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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