The Foundations of Latin
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The Foundations of Latin

  1. 561 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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The Foundations of Latin

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of figures
  3. List of maps
  4. List of plates
  5. List of tables
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Credits
  8. Abbreviations and symbols
  9. Transcription conventions
  10. Chapter 1 Indo-European and the Indo-European languages
  11. 1.1. Introduction
  12. 1.2. Methodological preliminaries
  13. 1.3. The comparative method and the regularity principle
  14. 1.4. The method of internal reconstruction
  15. 1.5. Genetic classifications and family trees
  16. 1.6. The Indo-European language family
  17. 1.7. Aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture and civilization
  18. 1.8. Summary
  19. Chapter 2 An outline of Proto-Indo-European
  20. 2.1. Phonology
  21. 2.2. Morphology
  22. 2.3. Syntax
  23. 2.4. Summary
  24. Chapter 3 Ancient Italy and its Indo-Europeanization
  25. 3.1. The European Stone Age and its reflection in Italy
  26. 3.2. The Metal Ages
  27. 3.3. Rome
  28. 3.4. The Etruscans
  29. 3.5. The people of ancient Italy
  30. 3.6. Summary
  31. Chapter 4 The languages of ancient Italy
  32. 4.1. Sources of information
  33. 4.2. Samples of the Italic languages
  34. 4.3. Samples of non-Italic languages
  35. 4.4. Interrelationships within Italic
  36. 4.5. Relationships between the Italic and other Indo-European languages
  37. 4.6. Summary
  38. Chapter 5 Materials for the study of Latin
  39. 5.1. Samples of Latin inscriptions, with commentary
  40. 5.2. Continuous texts
  41. 5.3. Literary texts
  42. 5.4. Spoken Latin
  43. 5.5. Graffiti
  44. 5.6. Letters
  45. 5.7. Summary
  46. Chapter 6 The development of the Latin phonological system from PIE
  47. 6.1. The vowels and laryngeals
  48. 6.2. The consonants
  49. 6.3. Summary
  50. Chapter 7 The development of the Latin morphological system from PIE
  51. 7.1. The parts of speech
  52. 7.2. Nouns and adjectives
  53. 7.3. Pronouns
  54. 7.4. Comparison of adjectives
  55. 7.5. Adverbs
  56. 7.6. Numerals
  57. 7.7. Undeclined forms
  58. 7.8. The verb
  59. 7.9. Summary
  60. References
  61. Classical sources cited
  62. Indexes of forms
  63. 1. Latin-Faliscan
  64. 2. Albanian
  65. 3. Anatolian
  66. 4. Armenian
  67. 5. Baltic
  68. 6. Celtic
  69. 7. Germanic
  70. 8. Greek
  71. 9. Indo-Iranian
  72. 10. Other Italic
  73. 11. Non-Italic IE of Italy
  74. 12. Non-Indo-European
  75. 13. Romance
  76. 14. Slavic
  77. 15. Tocharian
  78. 16. Proto-Indo-European
  79. Index of authors
  80. Index of classical references
  81. Index of subjects