Knihobot

Coulter H. George

    1. leden 1976
    How Dead Languages Work
    Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek
    • How Dead Languages Work

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      Different languages have different personalities, and there is a lot that can be lost in translation. This volume offers an engaging and accessible introduction to six ancient and medieval languages, introducing their most distinctive features and showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts.

      How Dead Languages Work2020
      4,1
    • Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

      • 341 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day, and in a given year; however this book does just that for Ancient Greek, describing not only variation among Classical authors, but also diachronic change in the following centuries.

      Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek2016
      3,0