How dead languages work:
What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Gree...
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| Zusammenfassung: | What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing readers to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through0the resources of Old English. But these are languages that have shared connections as well. Readers will see how the Sanskrit of the Rig Veda uses words that come from roots found also in English, how turns of phrase characteristic of the Hebrew Bible found their way into English, and that even as unusual a language as Old Irish still builds on common Indo-European linguistic patterns. Very few people have the opportunity to learn these languages, and they can often seem mysterious and0inaccessible: drawing on a lucid and engaging writing style and with the aid of clear English translations throughout, this book aims to give all readers, whether scholars, students, or interested novices, an aesthetic appreciation of just how rich and varied they are |
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction Greek 1 13 The sounds of Greek 13 Word forms 18 The Iliad 27 Formulas 35 Thucydides and abstract language 41 Pauline prepositions 49 Latin 57 How Latin works 59 Lucretius 67 Horace and Housman 78 Tacitus 88 Old English and the Germanic languages 99 Grimms Law and umlaut 100 Verbs, strong and weak 107 Old English 114 Beowulf 119 Sanskrit 133 The sounds of Sanskrit 136 Sandhi 141 Nouns in Sanskrit 142 The Rig Veda 146 How to kill a dragon 148 The hidden names of the dawn-cows 152 Old Irish and the Celtic languages 157 The eccentricities of the Irish language 157 Old Irish in action 173 Welsh 178
viii Contents 7. Hebrew The sounds of Semitic 189 How Semitic words change shape 195 Let there be light 199 Noun chains 205 Epilogue and further reading Index 189 213 219
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Contents Introduction Greek 1 13 The sounds of Greek 13 Word forms 18 The Iliad 27 Formulas 35 Thucydides and abstract language 41 Pauline prepositions 49 Latin 57 How Latin works 59 Lucretius 67 Horace and Housman 78 Tacitus 88 Old English and the Germanic languages 99 Grimms Law and umlaut 100 Verbs, strong and weak 107 Old English 114 Beowulf 119 Sanskrit 133 The sounds of Sanskrit 136 Sandhi 141 Nouns in Sanskrit 142 The Rig Veda 146 How to kill a dragon 148 The hidden names of the dawn-cows 152 Old Irish and the Celtic languages 157 The eccentricities of the Irish language 157 Old Irish in action 173 Welsh 178
viii Contents 7. Hebrew The sounds of Semitic 189 How Semitic words change shape 195 Let there be light 199 Noun chains 205 Epilogue and further reading Index 189 213 219 |
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