How Dead Languages Work

Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „How Dead Languages Work “

1 Introduction; 2 Greek; The sounds of Greek; Word-forms; The Iliad; Formulas; Thucydides and abstract language; Pauline prepositions; 3 Latin; How Latin works; Lucretius; Horace and Housman; Tacitus; 4 Old English and the Germanic Languages; Grimm's Law and umlaut; Verbs, strong and weak; Old English; Beowulf; 5 Sanskrit; The sounds of Sanskrit; Sandhi; Nouns in Sanskrit; The Rig Veda; How to kill a dragon; The hidden names of the dawn-cows; 6 Old Irish and the Celtic Languages; The eccentricities of the Irish language; Old Irish in action; Welsh; 7 Hebrew; The sounds of Semitic; How Semitic words change shape; Let there be light; Noun chains; 8 Epilogue and Further Reading; Endmatter; Index