A Companion to the Latin Language
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A Companion to the Latin Language by James Clackson
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 alphabetJames 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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405186056 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405186054 |
| Title | A Companion to the Latin Language |
| Author | James Clackson |
| Series | Blackwell Companions To The Ancient World |
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| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 664 |
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