The Ancient Languages of EuropeThis book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language. |
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Contents
Table of contents of The Ancient Languages | 2 |
Sanskrit stephanie w jamison | 6 |
Hittite calvert watkins 551 | 14 |
Luvain h craig melchert | 31 |
Middle Indic stephanie w jamison | 33 |
Palaic h craig melchert | 40 |
Lycian h craig melchert | 46 |
Greek dialects roger d woodard 650 | 50 |
Venetic rex e wallace 840 | 124 |
Ancient Chinese alain peyraube | 136 |
Early Georgian kevin tuite | 145 |
9Mayan victoria r bricker | 163 |
Continental Celtic joseph f eska 857 | 165 |
The cuneiform script | 166 |
Full tables of contents from The Cambridge Encyclopedia | 173 |
Gothic jay h jasanoff 881 | 189 |
Lydian h craig melchert | 56 |
Carian h craig melchert | 64 |
Sanskrit stephanie w jamison 673 | 73 |
Old Persian rudiger schmitt | 76 |
Hurrian gernot wilhelm | 81 |
Sabellian languages rex e wallace 812 | 96 |
Avestan mark hale | 101 |
Urartian gernot wilhelm | 105 |
Pahlavi mark hale | 123 |
EpiOlmec Zapotec appendix terrence kaufman | 193 |
Ancient Nordic jan terje faarlund 907 | 215 |
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Table of contents of The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas | vi |
Table of contents of | vii |
List of contributors | xv |
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Common terms and phrases
3rd pl 3rd sg ablaut accent accusative adjectives Aeolic alphabet ancient aorist Archaic Etruscan athematic attested Boeotian century BC Classical Attic clause clitic compensatory lengthening consonant Continental Celtic Cretan dative declension dental diphthongs Doric endings Eska example f¨ur feminine final formation forms fricative Gaulish gender genitive singular Germanic Gothic Greek alphabet Greek dialects Hispano-Celtic identified imperative indicative Indo-European languages infinitive inflection inscriptions Ionic labiovelar Late Etruscan Latin Latin alphabet Lejeune Lepontic Lesbian linguistic locative long vowels masc masculine mediopass monophthongization mood morphology Mycenaean nasal neut neuter nominative o-stem obstruents occurs Oscan paradigm participle passive perf perfect phonemes phonological plural postposition preceding vowel present preterite pronominal pronouns Prosdocimi Proto-Germanic Proto-Greek Proto-Indo-European reduplication reflex root Sabellian Sabellian languages script short vowel spelling stops subjunctive suffix syllables tense stems thematic third singular Umbrian velar Venetic verb vocative voiced voiceless word-final word-initial words
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Ancient Languages of Europe |
| Editor | Roger D. Woodard |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1139469320, 9781139469326 |
| Subjects | › › Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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