Latin: A Historical and Linguistic Handbook

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Author(s): Mason Hammond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1977

Language: English
Pages: 292
Tags: Latein

Frontmatter......Page 1
PREFACE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS......Page 13
THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES......Page 26
INDO-EUROPEAN AND LATIN......Page 37
LATIN AND THE OTHER LANGUAGES OF ANCIENT ITALY......Page 49
THE ALPHABET......Page 56
PRONUNCIATION......Page 73
THE MORPHOLOGY OF NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES......Page 91
THE MORPHOLOGY OF VERBS......Page 109
THE MORPHOLOGY OF ADVERBS AND OTHER PARTICLES......Page 139
THE FORMATION OF COMPOUNDS......Page 148
THE SYNTAX OF NOUNS......Page 155
THE SYNTAX OF VERBS......Page 178
VERSIFICATION......Page 212
POSTCLASSICAL LATIN AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES......Page 242
LATIN AND ENGLISH......Page 258
HISTORICAL AND ORAL APPROACHES......Page 267
BIBLIOGRAPHY BY CHAPTERS......Page 275
INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 289
GENERAL INDEX......Page 291