Humanities
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781607245582
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Milton W. Humphreys explores the development of the comic agon – that is, the contest-in-words that is the heart of Athenian drama and a reflection of the speech competitions in Athenian politics.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245575
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Paul Haupt argues for the existence of an e-vowel in Ugaritic, a vowel whose existence is difficult to prove in the consonant-free script of Semitic language.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 41
ISBN: 9781607245599
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield, a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics, applies the principles of linguistics to explain the recessive accent of Greek verbs in terms of Indo-European.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114
ISBN: 9781607245605
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Learned's history and grammar of Pennsylvania German is still a standard text of this living dialect and includes sections on ethnography, history, phonology, grammar, and etymology.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781607245490
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Herbert Weir Smyth focuses on a grammatical feature of the Homeric dialect of Greek viewed as an aberration by other grammarians, namely what seems to be a reduction of the -ei diphthong to -i in certain words.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9781607245568
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this well-known piece, Hale questions the rule of sequence of tense in Latin subjunctive clauses which is still used to teach Latin grammar, but fails to correspond to the language as it was used by the Romans themselves.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607245513
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Francis B. Gummere presents s clear discussion of the issues involved in translating the poem for modern English readers.
