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Understanding Language
Why do students today find Greek and Latin so difficult and frustrating to learn? Perhaps the primary barrier preventing us from learning another language successfully is that we often subconsciously believe that English is the standard for the way languages must express ideas, and therefore we unwittingly try to fit the new language into the structure of English.This book seeks to break students out of \"\"English mode\"\" as soon as possible, at the very beginning of study. Rather than constantly relating Greek and Latin to English, the book starts with a big-picture discussion of what any language must do in order to facilitate communication. It then explains how Indo-European languages in general accomplish the tasks of communication, and how Greek and Latin in particular do so. Understanding Language includes major sections on the noun and verb systems of the classical languages. In both cases, the book deals first with function (what nouns and verbs must do) and then explains how the forms of Greek and Latin achieve the needed functions. As a result, the book helps to make the hard tasks of memorising forms and learning syntax easier and more enjoyable. Students gain a broad understanding of the way the classical languages work before they begin the details. This book gives students some of the conceptual benefits of studying two closely related languages, even if they are studying only one of them. Students do not need to be studying both Latin and Greek (or even to know the Greek alphabet) in order to profit from this book. Teachers may choose to have students read the entire book at the beginning of their study or to read sections at various points in the first year.
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New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin
Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory.
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Root-adjacent exponence in the Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin verbal systems
Proto-Indo-European verbal morphology is generally described as consisting of at least a “thematic” and an “athematic” conjugation, which differ in whether or not a fixed vocalic piece adjacent to the root (traditionally known as “thematic vowel”) is present. This paper investigates the behavior of the outcomes of the thematic vowels in three ancient Indo-European languages: Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin. We show that, on the one hand, Latin thematic vowels are typically “ornamental”, in that they lack any morpho-syntactico-semantic information, and are used exclusively for classification purposes; on the other hand, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek thematic vowels are fully functional, in that they expone (at least) aspectual information. We argue for a diachronic account of such differential treatment of thematicity across the three languages, whereby the original functionality of such pieces, albeit fully preserved in Sanskrit, was gradually lost over time, and finally gave rise to the Latin verbal ornamental system.
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The Specifics of Terminologization of Parts of Speech in Kazakh and English, Including in the Context of the Language of the City: A Comparative Analysis
The main purpose of this study was to make a comparative analysis of the process of terminologization of parts of speech in the Kazakh and English languages (Kazakh – agglutinative, English – inflectional) from historical, morphological, and cognitive perspectives. It aimed to comparatively analyze how grammatical terms related to parts of speech in Kazakh and English are formed, their structural features, and their cognitive characteristics. The study also attempted to examine the influence of Latin, Greek, Turkic, and English languages on the formation of part-of-speech terminology. The study employed comparative-historical, morphological, etymological, and cognitive methods to analyze 18 grammatical terms (nine parts of speech each in Kazakh and English). These methods revealed their origins, structural features, and cultural influences, proposing models of terminologization and aligning Kazakh grammatical terminology with international standards for translation equivalence. The study revealed that grammatical terms in Kazakh are formed on the basis of national cognitive and cultural models, whereas terms in English are grounded in the Greco-Latin academic tradition. The research also revealed that grammatical terminology in the Kazakh language is rooted in national conceptual frameworks, whereas English terminology has developed as a continuation of historical influences and scientific traditions. This research can contribute to improving translation accuracy, enhancing terminological consistency, and promoting the development of language policy.
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The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek
This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of unproductive and mostly pan-Hellenic shifts.
Professor Bubeník presents a phonetic description and structural phonemic analysis of the best-known variant-Classical Attic of the 5th century B.C.-and displays and contrasts the vocalic and consonantal inventories of all the other dialects classified according to their major groups. Derivational histories of individual dialects are examined in their juxtaposition, to ascertain which rules are shared by various dialects and which are dialect-specific. The pandialectal framework enables Bubeník to capture various relationships among genetically related dialects which are missed in atomistic and static treatments, and to show more convincingly the extent of their similarity and their systemic cohesion.
This volume makes a significant contribution to both classical scholarship and current theory of language change by offering new analyses of a variety of phonological and morphophonemic problems presented by a dead language and its dialects.
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The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period
The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters grammatical, and the scholars who contribute to this volume are among the ones who are responsible for that happy circumstance. The contents of this book bear ample testimony to the enhanced and enlarged understanding and appreciation of ancient grammar that we now enjoy. Each article in this volume has something new to say about the history of linguistics in the classical period, and each author insists that we need to return to ancient texts time and time again and that we need to read them even more carefully. The rethinking so conspicuous in much of the recent scholarship in this field is pointing in the direction of a new historiographical model of Greek and Latin linguistic science. The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XIII:2/3.
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Latina a řečtina v slovní zásobě, gramatice a terminologii slovanských jazyků
Publikace ukazuje, jak antické jazyky, mající rozhodující podíl na vývoji evropské kultury, zasáhly do slovní zásoby, terminologie i mluvnice slovanských jazyků, a jaký význam má proto zejména znalost latiny pro současnou profesionální činnost člověka v různých oborech.
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