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Studies in classical linguistics in honor of Philip Baldi / edited by B. Richard Page and Aaron D. Rubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; v. 17.
- Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Language and culture.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 168 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Summary:
- This volume includes fourteen original articles, written by a diverse group of distinguished scholars in home of philip Baldi (Penn State University) The contributions all focus on some aspect of classical linguistics by which is meant Latin, Greek, Estruscan, and Indo European Some focus more on historical linguistic issues, while others deal with synchronic grammatical or semantic problems. The Volume also offers a completed bibliography of the works of philip Baldi, as well as a personal sketch. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A few words for springs in Aeschylus / Daniel W. Berman
- How to move towards somebody in Plautus' comedies: some remarks on the adverb obuiam / Pierluigi Cuzzolin
- Baltic Palaeocomparativism and the idea that Lithuanian is a neo-Latin language / Pietro U. Dini
- Blight and bugs: the semantics of Latin plant diseases and the perils of Latin translations of the OT book of Psalms / Paul B. Harvey, Jr.
- On Latin (s)tritavus / Brian D. Joseph
- On complex syllable onsets in Latin /
- Christian Lehmann
- Having something that you don't own: apud possessive constructions in Latin and a comparison with locative possessive sentences in Irish / Andrea Nuti
- Gender assignment of early Latin loanwords in Germanic: a case study of Latin vinum / B. Richard Page
- The use of quia and quoniam in Cicero, Seneca, and Tertullian / Harm Pinskter
- Dum loquimur, fugerit inuida aetas: on tense and actionality of Latin verba dicendi / Hannah Rosen
- Thoughts on the origin of the Latin and Indo-European nominal declension / William R. Schmalstieg
- Latin alias 'at another time' / Brent Vine
- Etruscan mlak[ and the interpretation of the inscription on the Santa Teresa kyathos / Rex Wallace
- Poetry in motion: the semantic transformation of poetria in the Middle Ages / Stephen Wheeler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004188662
- 9004188665
- OCLC:
- 649927441
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