The Foundations of Latin / Edition 1

by Philip Baldi

Overview

No detailed description available for "The Foundations of Latin".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110162943
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/22/1999
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #117
Edition description:	Reprint 2010
Pages:	561
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Indo-European and the Indo-European languages

1.1 Introduction
1.2 The comparative method and and the regularity principle
1.3 The method of internal reconstruction
1.4 Genetic classification and family trees
1.5 The Indo-European language family
1.6 Aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture and civilization
1.7 Summary

Chapter 2 An outline of Proto-Indo-European

2.1 Phonology
2.2 Morphology
2.3 Syntax
2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Ancient Italy and its Indo-Europeanization

3.1 The European Stone Age and its reflection in Italy
3.2 The Metal Ages
3.3 Rome
3.4 The Etruscans
3.5. The people of ancient Italy
3.6 Summary

Chapter 4 The languages of ancient Italy

4.1 Sources of information
4.2 Samples of the Italic languages
4.3 Samples of non-Italic languages
4.4 Interrelations with Italic
4.5 Relationships between the Italic and other Indo-European languages
4.6 Summary

Chapter 5 Materials for the study of Latin

5.1 Samples of Latin inscriptions, with commentary
5.2 Continuous texts
5.3 Literary texts
5.4 Spoken Latin
5.5 Graffiti
5.6 Letters

Chapter 6 The development of the Latin phonological system from PIE

6.1 The vowels and laryngeals
6.2 The consonants
6.3 Summary

Chapter 7 The development of the Latin morphological system from PIE

7.1 The parts of speech
7.2 Nouns and adjectives
7.3 Pronouns
7.4 Comparison of adjectives
7.5 Adverbs
7.6 Numerals
7.7 Undeclined forms
7.8 The verb
7.9 Summary

Editorial Reviews

"[...] a reliable compendium of all there is known about Latin and Indo-European."
Edgar C. Polomé in: Journal of Indo-European Studies

"Insgesamt handelt es sich bei den Foundations of Latin um eine eindrucksvolle Synthese des sprachgeschichtlichen Wissens zum Lateinischen, die jeder Klassische Philologe mit Gewinn benutzen wird. Erleichtert wird die Benutzung durch mehrere Register und vor allem durch den leicht lesbaren Stil, der oft zu hörenden studentischen Klagen gegenüber arkaner Darbietungsweise sprachhistorischer Arbeiten keinerlei Angriffspunkt bietet."
F. Heberlein in: Gymnasium, 1/2001/ Bd. 108, Heidelberg

From the Publisher

A synthesizing work which attempts to fill in perceived gaps in other standard histories of the Latin language. The author specifically treats the connections of Latin to other Indo-European languages, cultural and historical perspectives of the development of the language, the evolution of sentence structure, and historical linguistic methodology. Particular emphasis is placed upon the inscriptional and philological record. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews