New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

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Andrew L Sihler (, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

Andrew L Sihler (, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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Oxford University Press
05 January 1995

Historical & comparative linguistics; History

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 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, 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 but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

By: Andrew L Sihler ( Professor Emeritus of Linguistics University of Wisconsin Madison)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1.140kg
ISBN: 9780195083453
ISBN 10: 0195083458
Pages: 768
Publication Date: 05 January 1995
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

.,. 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 author's 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 Buck's essentially nineteenth-century work. --lassical Views