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Author: James Clackson (University of Cambridge, UK) ,
Geoffrey Horrocks (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.617kg
ISBN: 9781405162098
ISBN 10: 1405162090
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 November 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The stated goal of this welcome new survey is to overcome some of the shortcomings of L. R. Palmer's classic handbook The Latin Language, unrevised since its publication in 1954. The goal is worthy, and the execution is in many ways a success. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2009) Clackson and Horrocks have produced a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated, and still thoroughly manageable book that will not easily be superseded. (New England Classical Journal, February 2009) James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks have ... Succeeded admirably in their aim, presenting a mass of data within persuasive narrative. (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008) The...hefty Blackwell History of the Latin Language...The authors focus on the evolution of the sounds, vocabulary, word and sentence structure...over the centuries. (Chicago Tribune) [The authors] set the tone ... with an honesty that is ... appreciated ... .Marvelous treatment of ... understudied languages ... .Carefully, admirably, proofread ... .Recommended. (Choice)
?The stated goal of this welcome new survey is to overcome some of the shortcomings of L. R. Palmer's classic handbook The Latin Language, unrevised since its publication in 1954. The goal is worthy, and the execution is in many ways a success.? (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2009) ?Clackson and Horrocks have produced a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated, and still thoroughly manageable book that will not easily be superseded.? (New England Classical Journal, February 2009) James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks have ? Succeeded admirably in their aim, presenting a mass of data within persuasive narrative. (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008) ?The?hefty Blackwell History of the Latin Language?The authors focus on the evolution of the sounds, vocabulary, word and sentence structure?over the centuries.? (Chicago Tribune) ?[The authors] set the tone ? with an honesty that is ? appreciated ? .Marvelous treatment of ? understudied languages ? .Carefully, admirably, proofread ? .Recommended.? (Choice)
?The stated goal of this welcome new survey is to overcome some of the shortcomings of L. R. Palmer's classic handbook The Latin Language, unrevised since its publication in 1954. The goal is worthy, and the execution is in many ways a success.? (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2009) ?Clackson and Horrocks have produced a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated, and still thoroughly manageable book that will not easily be superseded.? (New England Classical Journal, February 2009) James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks have ? Succeeded admirably in their aim, presenting a mass of data within persuasive narrative. (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008) ?The?hefty Blackwell History of the Latin Language?The authors focus on the evolution of the sounds, vocabulary, word and sentence structure?over the centuries.? (Chicago Tribune) ?[The authors] set the tone ? with an honesty that is ? appreciated ? .Marvelous treatment of ? understudied languages ? .Carefully, admirably, proofread ? .Recommended.? (Choice) ?This book is the best single volume work on the Latin language. A comprehensive survey of the major topics in Latin linguistics, it is valuable not only to specialists in that field but also to Latin literary scholars, and to students of Indo-European and Romance historical linguistics generally.? ?Philip Burton, University of Birmingham
The stated goal of this welcome new survey is to overcome some of the shortcomings of L. R. Palmer's classic handbook The Latin Language, unrevised since its publication in 1954. The goal is worthy, and the execution is in many ways a success. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2009) Clackson and Horrocks have produced a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated, and still thoroughly manageable book that will not easily be superseded. (New England Classical Journal, February 2009) James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks have ... Succeeded admirably in their aim, presenting a mass of data within persuasive narrative. (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008) The...hefty Blackwell History of the Latin Language...The authors focus on the evolution of the sounds, vocabulary, word and sentence structure...over the centuries. (Chicago Tribune) [The authors] set the tone ... with an honesty that is ... appreciated ... .Marvelous treatment of ... understudied languages ... .Carefully, admirably, proofread ... .Recommended. (Choice)
Author Information
James Clackson is University Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994), Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (2007), as well as articles on classical and Indo-European philology. Geoffrey Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology at Cambridge. He is the author of Space and Time in Homer (1981), Generative Grammar (1987), Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (1997), as well as of many articles on the history and structure of Greek from antiquity to the present day; he is also co-editor of Themes in Greek Linguistics (1998) and Studies in Greek Syntax (1999).
