COMPANION TO THE LATIN LANGUAG

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-119-26677-8
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage.
* Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialists
* Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language
* Explores the social and political contexts of Latin
* Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory
* Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clackson, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

James Clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2015), Indo-European Languages (2007) and The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994). He is co-author of The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoffrey Horrocks, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and co-editor of Indo-European Word Formation (with Birgit Anette Olsen, 2004), and Nominal Composition in Indo-European Languages (with Torsten Meißner, 2002).