New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Andrew L. Sihler (English) Hardcov

Description: New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Andrew L. Sihler This book accounts for the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin by tracing the prehistoric evolution from their common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European. The features of Proto-Indo-European itself are explained and justified on the basis of comparative and historical linguistics. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Like Carl Darling Bucks 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 onlyway to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible isto present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional butcrucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic. Author Biography Andrew L. Sihler is at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Review "...classicists, but especially linguists and Indo-Europeanists, will be grateful to Sihler for undertaking and completing successfully the enormous task of providing them with a modern comparative grammar of Greek and Latin."--Classical World"...a clear exhaustive presentation of the facts....We have to be thankful to the author for offering us a reliable guide for further study in the historical linguistics of the classical languages."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies"Teachers of Greek and Latin grammar will do well to consult this work..."--Religious Studies Review"...the authors erudition is evident on every page, and the discussion includes many persuasive insights into the countless phenomena it ranges over....a book which no Indo-Europeanist can afford to ignore..."--The Classical Journal"...the [New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] ...applies wide learning and prodigious labor toward filling many of the serious gaps that the present century had opened, or widened, in Bucks essentially nineteenth-century work."--lassical Views"...classicists, but especially linguists and Indo-Europeanists, will be grateful to Sihler for undertaking and completing successfully the enormous task of providing them with a modern comparative grammar of Greek and Latin."--Classical World"...a clear exhaustive presentation of the facts....We have to be thankful to the author for offering us a reliable guide for further study in the historical linguistics of the classical languages."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies"Teachers of Greek and Latin grammar will do well to consult this work..."--Religious Studies Review"...the authors erudition is evident on every page, and the discussion includes many persuasive insights into the countless phenomena it ranges over....a book which no Indo-Europeanist can afford to ignore..."--The Classical Journal"...the [New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] ...applies wide learning and prodigious labor toward filling many of the serious gaps that the present century had opened, or widened, in Bucks essentially nineteenth-century work."--lassical Views Long Description Like Carl Darling Bucks 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 onlyway to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, todiscuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic. Review Text "...classicists, but especially linguists and Indo-Europeanists, will be grateful to Sihler for undertaking and completing successfully the enormous task of providing them with a modern comparative grammar of Greek and Latin."--Classical World"...a clear exhaustive presentation of the facts....We have to be thankful to the author for offering us a reliable guide for further study in the historical linguistics of the classical languages."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies"Teachers of Greek and Latin grammar will do well to consult this work..."--Religious Studies Review"...the authors erudition is evident on every page, and the discussion includes many persuasive insights into the countless phenomena it ranges over....a book which no Indo-Europeanist can afford to ignore..."--The Classical Journal"...the [New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] ...applies wide learning and prodigious labor toward filling many of the serious gaps that the present century had opened, or widened, in Bucks essentially nineteenth-century work."--lassical Views"...classicists, but especially linguists and Indo-Europeanists, will be grateful to Sihler for undertaking and completing successfully the enormous task of providing them with a modern comparative grammar of Greek and Latin."--Classical World"...a clear exhaustive presentation of the facts....We have to be thankful to the author for offering us a reliable guide for further study in the historical linguistics of the classical languages."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies"Teachers of Greek and Latin grammar will do well to consult this work..."--Religious Studies Review"...the authors erudition is evident on every page, and the discussion includes many persuasive insights into the countless phenomena it ranges over....a book which no Indo-Europeanist can afford to ignore..."--The Classical Journal"...the [New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] ...applies wide learning and prodigious labor toward filling many of the serious gaps that the present century had opened, or widened, in Bucks essentially nineteenth-century work."--lassical Views Review Quote "...the [New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] ...applies wide learning and prodigious labor toward filling many of the serious gaps that the present century had opened, or widened, in Bucks essentially nineteenth-century work."--lassical Views Details ISBN0195083458 Author Andrew L. Sihler Short Title NEW COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF GRE Language English ISBN-10 0195083458 ISBN-13 9780195083453 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 485 Year 1995 Illustrations bibliography Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195083453 UK Release Date 1995-03-23 AU Release Date 1995-03-23 NZ Release Date 1995-03-23 US Release Date 1995-03-23 Illustrator Kasia Nowowiejska Edited by Linda Darling-Hammond Birth 1955 Death 1979 Affiliation Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Position Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Qualifications QC Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 1995-03-23 Alternative 9780195373363 Audience Undergraduate Pages 720 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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