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Modern students' lack of formal training in the grammar even of their own language leads to an impatience with the jargon and rules of syntax in their study of the ancient inflected languages. This comparative approach to Greek and Latin (first published in 1934) serves to introduce students to the syntax of both languages side by side.
The book has three main thrusts: the first critical - to explain usages and the labels and theories attached to them; the second historical - to explain the process by which the languages developed and changed; the third psychological - how did the working of speakers' or writers' thoughts make them express themselves and even vary 'normal' usages? The book still challenges anyone with an interest in the classical languages to see them as dynamic, developing entities, not as something fixed or dead.
Table of Contents
The Logical Scheme Of Expression
The Parts Of Speech
Nouns And Prepositions
The Cases: History And Interpenetrations
The Nominative
The Vocative
The Accusative
Preliminary
The Dative
The Genitive
The Ablative
The Locative.
The Instrumental
Special Prepositional Usages
Pronouns. The Article
Verbs
The Voices
The Tenses
The Ideal Requirements
The Present
The Imperfect
The Future
The Perfect
Contents
The Future Perfect
The Aomst
Tne Moons
Meanings And developments
The Indicative.
The Subjunctive And The Optative
The Imperative
The Infinitive
Verbal Nouns And Adjectives
The Participle
The Sentence
Variations From Simple
Jussive Usages
Positive Command
Negative Command
Concession
Wish
Deliberation
Parataxis And Syntaxis
The Compound Sentence
Dependent Clauses
Final
Consecutive
Definite Relative And Temporal
Causal
Concessive
Conditional Clauses Proper
Indefinite Relative And Temporal
Object Clauses
Modal Clauses
Object Clauses Of Fear
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An And Ken
The Negatives
Attraction And Assimilation
Examples For Exercise
Index
Product details
| Published | Dec 16 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 235 |
| ISBN | 9781853995989 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 215 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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