An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students
An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students
J. M. Edmonds
December 2014
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Originally published in 1906, this book was originally intended as a guide for students beginning their university studies in Classics. Edmonds includes charts and tables illuminating the development of Indo-European languages, and uses examples from Greek and Latin literature to illustrate key philological points. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Classical philology.
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December 2014Paperback
9781107450714
246 pages
198 × 129 × 13 mm
0.24kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Language and the study of language
- 2. The mechanism of speech, and the classification of sounds
- 3. Accent
- 4. Spelling and pronunciation, with a sketch of the history of our alphabet
- 5. The Aryan language and its descendants
- 6. Change
- 7. Vowel gradation
- 8. Grimm's law and the exceptions to it
- 9. Sounds which have developed differently in Greek and Latin
- 10. Sketch of the history of comparative philology
- List of books useful to the student of comparative philology
- Index of phonetic symbols
- Greek index
- General index.
