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A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students
This 1895 book, designed for classical students, brought to Britain the ideas of the German Neogrammarians on Indo-European comparative philology.
Peter Giles (Author)
9781108082105, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 19 April 2018
594 pages
21.5 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.64 kg
Peter Giles (1860–1935) spent most of his working life at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In addition to obtaining first-class degrees at Aberdeen and Cambridge, he attended the lectures in Germany of the philologist Karl Brugmann, which resulted in this 1895 book, bringing to Britain the ideas of the Neogrammarians. As Giles explains in his preface, it is intended for 'Classical students who, without being professed students of Comparative Philology, desire some acquaintance with its principles as applied to Latin and Greek'. Part I discusses comparative philology and the Indo-European languages in general; Part II, the specifics of phonetics and phonology in Latin and Greek; and Part III deals with morphology. This useful guide was Giles' only book, but he contributed to the Cambridge Ancient History and the Cambridge History of India, and was the single most prolific contributor on language-related topics to the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Preface
Part I. General Principles: 1. What is philology
2. What is an Indo-Germanic language
3. How do Indo-Germanic languages differ from other languages
4. The principles of modern philology
5. Phonetics
6. Accent
7. Differences between English and the classical languages, and between English and other Germanic languages
Part II. Sounds and their Combinations: 8. Indo-Germanic sounds
9. Attic Greek alphabet and pronunciation
10. Latin alphabet and pronunciation
11. History of the original Indo-Germanic sounds in Greek and Latin
12. On some combinations of consonants
13. On some other sound changes
14. Accent
Part III. Words and their Combinations: 15. General principles of word formation
16. Noun morphology
17. Classification of nouns
18. Case suffixes
19. Pronominal declension
20. Uses of the cases
21. Fragments of cases
22. Stem formation in the nouns
23. The numerals
24. Verb morphology
25. The present formations
26. The future
27. The perfect
28. Past formations
29. The moods
30. Verbal nouns
31. Uses of the verb forms
Appendices
Indices.
Subject Areas: Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF]