A Companion to the Latin Language - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
A Companion to the Latin Language - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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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
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781405186056 |
| ISBN10 | 1405186054 |
| Number Of Pages | 666 |
| Item Weight | 1334 g |
| Product Dimensions | 180 x 254 x 41 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
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).