New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin / Andrew L. Sihler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sihler, Andrew L., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.

Greek language.

Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.

Latin language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 686 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language

Contents:

pt. I. Introduction

pt. II. Phonology

pt. III. Declension

pt. IV. Pronouns

pt. V. Numerals

pt. VI. Conjugation.

Notes:

English, Greek, and Latin.

Includes indexes.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770484-0

0-19-988830-2

1-282-97774-1

9786612977749

0-19-970642-5

OCLC:

702127248