Vorlesungen über Syntax: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Griechisch, Lateinisch und Deutsch

Volume 1 of Wackernagel's influential lectures on comparative Greek, Latin and German grammar, first published in Basel in 1920.

Jacob Wackernagel (Author)

9781108006903, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2009

328 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

In 1920–1924 Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938), Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Basel, published two volumes of lectures on Greek, Latin and German syntax based on his 1918–1919 courses for beginning undergraduates (who would already have studied all three languages at school). Wackernagel introduces the principles of grammatical functions and cross-linguistic work, and provides a foundation for the understanding of comparative syntax. The book remained in print for many decades thanks to its lively style and well-chosen examples from classical texts. The Sanskritist Louis Renou (1896–1966), writing on Wackernagel in 1938, asserted that 'no linguist could possibly afford to ignore this book', and it remains of interest to historical linguists and scholars of classical languages today. In this, the first volume, Wackernagel outlines the history of syntactic theory from ancient times to the present, and provides a detailed treatment of the verb.

1. Begriff der Syntax
2. Begriff der Syntax
3. Syntaktische Forschung im Altertum
4. Syntaktische Forschung im Altertum
5. Syntaktische Forschung bis G. Hermann
6.-12. Syntaktische Forschung der Neuzeit
13. Redeteile
14.-18. Numerus
19.-21. Personalformen des Verbums
22.-25. Diathesen des Verbums
26.-36. Tempora
37.-41. Modi
42.-45. Infinitiv, Supinum, Gerundium
46.-47. Partizipium
48.-49. Einleitung in die Kasuslehre
50. Vocativ
Indices.

Subject Areas: Grammar, syntax & morphology [CFK]