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English Summary: This book has been designed for students of Latin and Indo-European-Linguistics and can be used for university-courses or self-study in order to learn the complex issues of Latin historical phonology within a short time. The implemented one-step-method allows the user to understand in detail every step of a derivation which leads from an Indo-European pre-form to a Latin word because in each step of the derivation a number refers to a complete list of Latin sound laws. The user can complete missing word formes in over 1000 gaps of phonological derivations. Answers to all the excercises are included in the book. German Description: Dieses Arbeitsbuch richtet sich an Studenten der Latinistik und Indogermanistik und kann in Universitatskursen oder zum Selbststudium genutzt werden, um das komplexe Gebiet der lateinischen Lautlehre innerhalb kurzer Zeit effektiv zu lernen. In uber 1.000 Ubungen kann der Lerner selbst fehlende Wortformen in phonologischen Ableitungsketten erganzen, die von urindogermanischen oder innerlateinischen Vorformen zu lateinischen Wortern fuhren. Bei jedem Ableitungsschritt verweist eine Nummer auf einen Index, der alle lateinischen Lautgesetze beinhaltet. Die Losungen der Aufgaben sind ebenfalls im Buch enthalten.

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Review - English Das Buch ist von Anfang bis Ende klar und sinnvoll strukturiert. Es kann problemlos zum Selbststudium verwendet werden und leistet auch bei der Auffrischung einmal erworbener Kenntnisse gute Dienste. (...) Uieses Buch hat das Format, zu einem Klassiker zu werden, der sowohl fur den Unterricht wie fur das Selbststudium verwendet werden kann. Harald BichlmeierIn: Das Altertum, Band 59 (2014), S.225-226. -------------------------------------- Malte Liesner's Workbook of Latin Historical Phonology (henceforth the Workbook ) is a practical guide for German-reading students to study the development of Latin phonology from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), through Archaic Latin, down to the Classical period. It could be put to good use as a manual for self-guided study, but is probably best suited for use as a textbook in university-level courses. This is not surprising, since Liesner developed the Workbook while teaching a Historical Linguistics course at the University of Bamberg. It is extremely accessible and user-friendly, and does not assume that students are fluent in Latin, or that they have loads of time to spend studying Latin diachronic phonology. Rather, it is designed for any student interested in Linguistics who wants to a take a semester-long course in Latin historical phonology in the midst of a busy schedule. Overall, the Workbook is an excellent, basic resource for the teaching and study of Latin historical phonology for German-reading students. Teachers of non-German-reading Linguistics students may also find it useful to translate some of its exercises and problem-sets for their classes. The Workbook progresses methodically through all of the most important phonological changes in Latin in a step-by-step manner, with exercises accompanying each set of related changes. There is an answer key to every exercise in the back of the book, as well as a comprehensive set of tables succinctly listing each phonological development. These developments are all given a number according to their order of presentation, so that as students encounters them multiple times throughout numerous problem-sets they have a quick reference point. For example, the first sound law presented in the lessons is the rule usually cited by its Latin formulation: vocalis ante vocalem corriptur 'a vowel before another vowel is shortened'. This sound law is thus given the numerical tag 1.1 and Liesner's prime example, used first in the introduction of the sound law, and again in the table under 1.1 is fuit > fuit 'was'. Every time a form is encountered in any following exercise where a vowel is shortened by this rule a 1.1 will appear in parentheses in front of the form the student must produce. (...)The amount of work and care that must have gone into composing the Workbook is admirable. As is probably to be expected, minor quibbles might be raised here and there as to the precision of a reconstruction or presentation of a phonological scenario. (...) This is not the place, however, to dwell on such points. Instead, I would close by commending Liesner for his diligence and attention to detail in creating such a valuable resource for the study and teaching of the history of Latin phonology. Todd ClaryIn: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2012.11.21http: //bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-11-21.html (30. November 2011)

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Malte Liesner works as a Latin lecturer at the University of Bamberg, Germany, as well as a teacher of Business English in companies and educational institutions. He studied Indo-European Languages, Indology and Computational Linguistics at the Universities of Cologne and Wurzburg in Germany.

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