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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.

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"""More than a book of popularization, this book is a kind of manual for the contemporary linguist, non-specialist of��Classics. (translated)"" -- Lionel Dumarty, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ""The book is a successful introduction to ancient Greek and Roman thinking about language."" -- M.L. Goldman, CHOICE"

More than a book of popularization, this book is a kind of manual for the contemporary linguist, non-specialist of Classics. (translated) -- Lionel Dumarty, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The book is a successful introduction to ancient Greek and Roman thinking about language. -- M.L. Goldman, CHOICE

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P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Positions of Adjectives in English (OUP 2015), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).

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