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Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine

Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine

Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine

Troisième édition revisée et augmentée
3rd Edition
Antoine Meillet
November 2009
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9781108006712
£29.00
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    Antoine Meillet mentored a generation of influential twentieth-century linguists and philologists, including Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet. One of the most influential comparative linguists of his time, he recognised that language is a social phenomenon, influenced by sociological factors. Originally published in 1933, this third edition of his 1928 history of Latin was the last to be published during his lifetime. In it, Meillet explores the historical context and significance of Latin. He describes how it developed from Indo-European and evolved according to the fluctuating fortunes of the Roman empire, imitating and borrowing from Greek in many ways but unified by the centralising influence of Rome. As the empire declined, the regional dialects of Latin began to develop into the modern Romance languages, with religion, philosophy and science ensuring the survival of Latin itself into the modern period.

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    November 2009
    Paperback
    9781108006712
    308 pages
    216 × 140 × 18 mm
    0.39kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. De l'indo-européen au latin
    • 2. Origine dialectale
    • 3. L'italo-celtique
    • 4. L'italique
    • 5. Les parlers latins
    • 6. La langue de Rome au troisième siècle avant J.-C.
    • 7. Structure du latin
    • 8. L'hellénisation de la culture romaine
    • 9. L'extension du latin
    • 10. Les changements du latin à l'époque impériale
    • 11. Persistance du latin écrit
    • Appendix
    • Bibliographie
    • Index.
      Author
    • Antoine Meillet