This volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral language until the end of the second century CE. As the first English-language treatment of the history of Latin and its speakers in four decades, this study fills a critical need in classical and linguistic scholarship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Indo-European and the Indo-European languages
1. 1 Introduction
1. 2 The comparative method and and the regularity principle
1. 3 The method of internal reconstruction
1. 4 Genetic classification and family trees
1. 5 The Indo-European language family
1. 6 Aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture and civilization
1. 7 Summary
Chapter 2 An outline of Proto-Indo-European
2. 1 Phonology
2. 2 Morphology
2. 3 Syntax
2. 4 Summary
Chapter 3 Ancient Italy and its Indo-Europeanization
3. 1 The European Stone Age and its reflection in Italy
3. 2 The Metal Ages
3. 3 Rome
3. 4 The Etruscans
3. 5. The people of ancient Italy
3. 6 Summary
Chapter 4 The languages of ancient Italy
4. 1 Sources of information
4. 2 Samples of the Italic languages
4. 3 Samples of non-Italic languages
4. 4 Interrelations with Italic
4. 5 Relationships between the Italic and other Indo-European languages
4. 6 Summary
Chapter 5 Materials for the study of Latin
5. 1 Samples of Latin inscriptions, with commentary
5. 2 Continuous texts
5. 3 Literary texts
5. 4 Spoken Latin
5. 5 Graffiti
5. 6 Letters
Chapter 6 The development of the Latin phonological system from PIE
6. 1 The vowels and laryngeals
6. 2 The consonants
6. 3 Summary
Chapter 7 The development of the Latin morphological system from PIE
7. 1 The parts of speech
7. 2 Nouns and adjectives
7. 3 Pronouns
7. 4 Comparison of adjectives
7. 5 Adverbs
7. 6 Numerals
7. 7 Undeclined forms
7. 8 The verb
7. 9 Summary