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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe |
Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780198852827 |
ISBN-10: | 0198852827 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | George, Coulter H |
Hersteller: | Hurst & Co. |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de |
Maße: | 241 x 158 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Coulter H George |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.06.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,497 kg |
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
---|---|
Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe |
Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780198852827 |
ISBN-10: | 0198852827 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | George, Coulter H |
Hersteller: | Hurst & Co. |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de |
Maße: | 241 x 158 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Coulter H George |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.06.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,497 kg |
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