37.2224, Books: Excavating Language: Drinka and Ehrhardt (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 26-Jun-2026
From: Giada Palmieri [giada.palmieri at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Excavating Language: Drinka and Ehrhardt (eds.) (2026)


Title: Excavating Language
Subtitle: Linguistic Connections across Latin, Greek, and Modern
European Languages
Series Title: Studies in Language Change [SLC]
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111211800

Editor(s): Bridget Drinka and Claus Ehrhardt

Abstract:

The volume represents a cohesive yet multifaceted approach to themes,
issues, and controversies concerning the role that Latin and Greek
played in providing a template for the structural patterns and lexicon
of the modern-day European languages. The authors engage in a careful
examination of the evidence from the classical languages, tracing the
origins of such structures as negation patterns from Latin, or request
verbs from Greek. Among many other structures, they observe the
continuing influence that Latin exerts upon learned structures and
lexicon through time, but also its interaction with vernacular
tendencies. At the same time, they provide valuable insight into the
operation and motivation for change, in general.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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