A Companion to the Latin Language
Will be published approx. on 24. January 2020
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664 pages
978-1-119-26677-8 (ISBN)
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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
* 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
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James Clackson
A Companion to the Latin Language
E-Book
07/2011
Wiley-Blackwell
€164.99
Available for download
James Clackson
A Companion to the Latin Language
E-Book
06/2011
Wiley-Blackwell
€164.99
Available for download
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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).