A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect - Couverture rigide

Monro, David Binning

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0559458665 ISBN 13 : 9780559458668

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It may be said, without fear of giving offence, that a new Grammai of the Homeric dialect is sorely wanted. The admirable Oriechische Formenlehre of the late H. L. Ahrens is now just thirty yeai8 old, and is confined, as its title indicates, to the inflexions. Not only has the course of discovery been going on since Ahrens wrote (and with hardly less I apidity than in the first years of the new science), but the historical method has been carried into the field of syntax. And apart from comparative philology, the researches of Bekker, Cobet, La Roche, and many other students have brought together a wealth of material that only needs careful analysis and arrangement to make it accessible to the general body of learners. The plan of this book has sufficient novelty to call for some explanation. I have not attempted to write a Comparative Grammar, or even a Grammar that would deserve the epithet historical: but I have kept in view two principles of arrangement which belong to the historical or genetic method. These are, that grammar should proceed from the simple to the complex types of the Sentence, and that the form and the meaning should as far as possible be treated together. Now the simplest possible Sentence apart from mere exclamations consists of a Verb, or word containing in itself the two elements of all rational utterance, a Subject and a Predicate. We begin, therefore, by analysing the Verb, and classifying (i) the Endings, which express the Person and Number of the Subject (1-7), and serve also to distinguish the Middle or Reflexive use (8), and (2) the modifications of the Stem which yield the several Tenses and Moods.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BiblioLife
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0559458665
• ISBN 13: 9780559458668
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
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