James Clackson & Geoffrey Horrocks 
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language [PDF ebook] 

Ondersteuning

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide
up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its
prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through
the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of
Cicero and Vergil, and examines the impact of the spread of spoken
Latin through the Roman Empire.
* * The first book in English in more than 50 years to provide
comprehensive coverage of the history of the Latin language
* Gives a full account of the transformation of the language in
the context of the rise and fall of Ancient Rome
* Presents up-to-date commentary on the key linguistic
issues
* Makes use of carefully selected texts, many of which have only
recently come to light
* Includes maps and glossary as well as fully translated and
annotated sample texts that illustrate the different stages of the
language
* Accessible to readers without a formal knowledge of Latin or
linguistics

€114.95
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Inhoudsopgave

Preface.
1 Latin and Indo-European.
2 The Languages of Italy.
3 The Background to Standardization.
4 ‘Old’ Latin and its Varieties in the Period c.400–150 BC.
5 The Road to Standardization: Roman Latin of the Third and
Second Centuries BC.
6 Elite Latin in the Late Republic and Early Empire.
7 Sub-Elite Latin in the Empire.
8 Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond.
Glossary.
Appendix: The International Phonetic Alphabet.
Bibliography of Reference and Other Works.
Index.

Over de auteur

James Clackson is University Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994), Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (2007), as well as articles on classical and Indo-European philology.
Geoffrey Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology at Cambridge. He is the author of Space and Time in Homer (1981), Generative Grammar (1987), Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (1997), as well as of many articles on the history and structure of Greek from antiquity to the present day; he is also co-editor of Themes in Greek Linguistics (1998) and Studies in Greek Syntax (1999).

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