What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About 1st Edition

What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198830115,0198830114,9780192565778, 019256577X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 019256577X
• ISBN-13: 9780192565778
• Author: P. H. Matthews

This book explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure of the languages they taught. The volume focuses primarily on the early centuries AD, a time when the Roman Empire was at its peak; in this period, a grammarian not only had a secure place in the ancient system of education, but could take for granted an established technical understanding of language. By delineating what that ancient model of grammar was, P. H. Matthews highlights both those aspects that have persisted to this day and seem reassuringly familiar, such as ‘parts of speech’, as well as those aspects that are wholly dissimilar to our present understanding of grammar and language. The volume is written to be accessible to students of linguistics from undergraduate level upwards, and assumes no knowledge of Latin or Ancient Greek.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Grammar

Chapter 3: Units

Chapter 4: Words

Chapter 5: The eight parts

Chapter 6: Accidents

Chapter 7: Inflectional categories

Chapter 8: Speaking correctly

Chapter 9: Utterances

Chapter 10: Parts of utterances and their constructions

Chapter 11: Derivation

Chapter 12: Final comments

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