16.229, Books: Hist Ling, Latin: Janson, Vincent/Sørensen (Trans)

Tue Jan 25 16:52:21 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-229. Tue Jan 25 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.229, Books: Hist Ling, Latin: Janson, Vincent/Sørensen (Trans)

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org) 
        Sheila Collberg, U of Arizona  
        Terry Langendoen, U of Arizona  

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <megan at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 20-Jan-2005
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: A Natural History of Latin: Janson, Vincent/Sørensen (Trans) 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:50:49
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: A Natural History of Latin: Janson, Vincent/Sørensen (Trans) 

Title: A Natural History of Latin 
Publication Year: 2004 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926309-4 

Author: Tore Janson, University of Göteborg
Translator: Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester
Translator: Merethe Damsgaard Sørensen

Hardback: ISBN: 0199263094 Pages: 316 Price: U.K. £ 16.99

Abstract:

Latin is alive and well. Beginning in Rome around 600 BC Latin became the
language of the civilized world and remained so for over two millennia.
French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it still
provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known
language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases -
has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells its history from
origins to the present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same
light touch as Speak, his bestselling history of languages, A Natural
History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.

The author charts the expansion in the classical world, its renewed
importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows
its central role in European history and culture and, by judicious
quotation of phrases and texts, describes how spoken and written Latin
changed and evolved differently in different places. He ends with a summary
of Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and of phrases still in common use. 

Considered elitist and irrelevant in the second half of the twentieth
century and often banned from schools, Latin is now enjoying a huge revival
of interest and a renaissance in schools across Europe, the UK, and the
USA. Tore Janson offers persuasive arguments for its value and direct
access to its fascinating worlds, past and present. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Latin (LTN)

Written In: English  (ENG)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=13051

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd.          
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom-europa.com	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer-Verlag          
		http://www.springeronline.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 

	Arawak Publications

	CSLI Publications
		http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 

	Canadian Journal of Linguistics
		http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=cjl/cjl.html 

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/ 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com 

	Pearson Longman
		http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-16-229	