The Foundations of Latin de Philip Baldi

The Foundations of Latin

Philip Baldi

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2002

This volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral language until the end of the second century CE. As the first English-language treatment of the history of Latin and its speakers in four decades, this study fills a critical need in classical and linguistic scholarship.

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Chapter 1 Indo-European and the Indo-European languages 1.1 Introduction1.2 The comparative method and and the regularity principle1.3 The method of internal reconstruction1.4 Genetic classification and family trees1.5 The Indo-European language family1.6 Aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture and civilization1.7 Summary Chapter 2 An outline of Proto-Indo-European 2.1 Phonology2.2 Morphology2.3 Syntax2.4 Summary Chapter 3 Ancient Italy and its Indo-Europeanization 3.1 The European Stone Age and its reflection in Italy3.2 The Metal Ages3.3 Rome3.4 The Etruscans3.5. The people of ancient Italy3.6 Summary Chapter 4 The languages of ancient Italy 4.1 Sources of information4.2 Samples of the Italic languages4.3 Samples of non-Italic languages4.4 Interrelations with Italic4.5 Relationships between the Italic and other Indo-European languages4.6 Summary Chapter 5 Materials for the study of Latin 5.1 Samples of Latin inscriptions, with commentary5.2 Continuous texts5.3 Literary texts5.4 Spoken Latin5.5 Graffiti5.6 Letters Chapter 6 The development of the Latin phonological system from PIE 6.1 The vowels and laryngeals6.2 The consonants6.3 Summary Chapter 7 The development of the Latin morphological system from PIE 7.1 The parts of speech7.2 Nouns and adjectives7.3 Pronouns7.4 Comparison of adjectives7.5 Adverbs7.6 Numerals7.7 Undeclined forms7.8 The verb7.9 Summary