30.1821, Books: What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About: Matthews

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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:17:05
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About: Matthews

 


Title: What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-graeco-roman-grammar-was-about-9780198830115/?WT.mc_id=gl-ling-11-2018-01 


Author: P. H. Matthews

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198830115 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 74


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Latin (lat)


Written In: English  (eng)

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