Humanities / Language & Literature
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245636
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Abel H. Huizinga was a noted scholar of Hebrew, and in this, his dissertation for John's Hopkins University, he discusses the mechanics of analogy in semitic languages with a focus on Hebrew.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607245643
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dwight Whitney examines Bahtlingk's edition of the two longest of the ancient or genuine Hindu Upanishads, the Chandogya and the Brhad-Aranyaka.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9781607245445
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Nettleship's introduction and commentary to Nonius Marcellus, a 3rd century AD writer on Latin grammar and lexicography. This includes a lengthy biography and background on the work and its influence.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607245650
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield was a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics, applies the principles of linguistics to rationalize certain irregular forms in a variety of languages.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245629
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Hewlett explores the specific use of the Ancient Greek articular infinitive in Polybius.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
ISBN: 9781607245414
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Minton Warren, a distinguished scholar of Roman comedy, explores the origins and shades of meaning in the Latin particle 'ne', arguing that it has both emphatic and interrogative meaning.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607245452
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Basil Gildersleeve, a prolific scholar of Greek and Latin grammar, here analyzes the development of the final clause in Ancient Greek from Homer to the Athenian dramatists.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 42
ISBN: 9781607245391
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9781607245612
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward Parmalee Morris uses his intimate knowledge of the syntax of Plautus to address the conventions for understanding interrogative constructions in Latin sentences.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
ISBN: 9781607245506
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward H. Spieker provides a linguistic analysis of the genitive absolute, one of the key constructions of the Greek language and often compared to the Latin Ablative Absolute despite some key dissimilarities.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781607245551
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Julius Goebel takes the Chronicle of Limburg and demonstrates how this seemingly prosaic source preserves otherwise unknown German folksong and poetry.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607245544
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Prof. Elmer offers an analysis of the use of coordinating conjunctions in Latin of the middle Republic – que, atque, and et.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9781607245667
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
John Leverett Moore, in this doctoral thesis for Johns Hopkins University, examines the methods by which Servius organized his commentary on Virgil.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245520
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
George Lyman Kittredge examines the medieval romance of Sir Orfeo against its classical predecessor in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 30
ISBN: 9781607245421
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Basil Gildersleeve, a prolific scholar of Greek and Latin grammar, here analyzes the difficult syntax of Pindar, paying particular attention to dependent clauses and conditional statements.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 46
ISBN: 9781607245384
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield applies the principles of linguistics to find the proper root forms for Ancient Greek words, a task complicated by the vowel shift that occurs when Greek words (particularly verbs) are inflected.
