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New Dictionary of the Armenian Language (vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1067
ISBN: 9781593339074
Pub Date: 27 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
Considered to be the most complete dictionary of Old Armenian (also known as Classical Armenian or Grabar, this historic dictionary is essential to the study of this language. Written by three members of the Mekhitarist Order, this project represents the first major attempt to document Old Armenian in any comprehensive way. This two-volume reference work is presented in the Classical Armenian alphabet with definitions given in Latin.
Stichometry Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9781607245469
Pub Date: 14 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
James Rendel Harris uses known statistics of ancient autographs (that is, the original version of a written document) to posit the general appearance of ancient documents in their original form.
Analogy in the Semitic Languages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245636
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Abel H. Huizinga was a noted scholar of Hebrew, and in this, his dissertation for John's Hopkins University, he discusses the mechanics of analogy in semitic languages with a focus on Hebrew.
Bohtlingk's Upanishads Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607245643
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dwight Whitney examines Bahtlingk's edition of the two longest of the ancient or genuine Hindu Upanishads, the Chandogya and the Brhad-Aranyaka.
Nonius Marcellus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9781607245445
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Nettleship's introduction and commentary to Nonius Marcellus, a 3rd century AD writer on Latin grammar and lexicography. This includes a lengthy biography and background on the work and its influence.
On Adaptation of Suffixes in Congeneric Classes of Substantives Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607245650
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield was a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics, applies the principles of linguistics to rationalize certain irregular forms in a variety of languages.
On the Articular Infinitive in Polybius Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245629
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Hewlett explores the specific use of the Ancient Greek articular infinitive in Polybius.
On the Enclitic ne in Early Latin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
ISBN: 9781607245414
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Minton Warren, a distinguished scholar of Roman comedy, explores the origins and shades of meaning in the Latin particle 'ne', arguing that it has both emphatic and interrogative meaning.
On the Final Sentence in Greek Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607245452
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Basil Gildersleeve, a prolific scholar of Greek and Latin grammar, here analyzes the development of the final clause in Ancient Greek from Homer to the Athenian dramatists.
On the Origin of "Had Rather Go" and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 42
ISBN: 9781607245391
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly.
On the Sentence-Question in Plautus and Terence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9781607245612
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward Parmalee Morris uses his intimate knowledge of the syntax of Plautus to address the conventions for understanding interrogative constructions in Latin sentences.
On the So-Called Genitive Absolute and Its Use Especially in the Attic Orators Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 34
ISBN: 9781607245506
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward H. Spieker provides a linguistic analysis of the genitive absolute, one of the key constructions of the Greek language and often compared to the Latin Ablative Absolute despite some key dissimilarities.
Poetry in the Limburger Chronik Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781607245551
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Julius Goebel takes the Chronicle of Limburg and demonstrates how this seemingly prosaic source preserves otherwise unknown German folksong and poetry.
Que, Et, Atque in the Inscriptions of the Republic, in Terence, and in Cato Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607245544
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Prof. Elmer offers an analysis of the use of coordinating conjunctions in Latin of the middle Republic – que, atque, and et.
Servius on the Tropes and Figures of Vergil Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9781607245667
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
John Leverett Moore, in this doctoral thesis for Johns Hopkins University, examines the methods by which Servius organized his commentary on Virgil.
Sir Orfeo Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245520
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
George Lyman Kittredge examines the medieval romance of Sir Orfeo against its classical predecessor in Ovid's Metamorphoses.