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A COMPANION TO THE LATIN LANGUAGE 5 Contents 7 List of Illustrations 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works 16 Abbreviations of Modern Sources 22 Symbols Used 26 Linguistic and Other Abbreviations 27 1 Introduction 29 PART I Sources 35 2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography 37 3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents 57 4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions 68 5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin 87 PART II The Language 109 6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology 111 7 Latin Prosody and Metrics 120 8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology 133 9 Latin Syntax 146 10 Latin Vocabulary 172 11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin 185 12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse 204 PART III Latin Through Time 225 13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family 227 14 Archaic and Old Latin 248 15 Classical Latin 264 16 Late Latin 285 17 Medieval Latin 312 18 Neo-Latin 331 PART IV Literary Registers of Latin 347 19 The Language of Roman Comedy 349 20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry 372 21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire 395 22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric 412 23 The Language of Latin Historio
Who reads A Companion to the Latin Language?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Clackson
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities