A Comparative Grammar Grammaire Comparee from German, Latin + Ancient Greek to English + French

A Comparative Grammar Grammaire Comparee from German, Latin + Ancient Greek to English + French
Author: Katharina Seutemann
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530748686

Which language(s) do you wish to learn?And, what's more important, which language(s) do you already know?English (E), French (F), German (D), Latin (L) or Ancient Greek (G)?With this method you will be able to learn or (re-) discover each of these 5 languages (including perhaps your mother tongue) by comparing them.The grammar of each of these languages is explained in English and French.No problem if you don't know or wish to learn Latin or Ancient Greek. If you wish to learn and practise French and English, or improve and test your French and your English, and if you already know German, then choose this version.Quelle(s) langue(s) souhaitez-vous apprendre ?Et surtout, quelle(s) langue(s) connaissez-vous déjà ?Le français (F), l'anglais (E), l'allemand (D), le latin (L) ou le grec ancien (G) ?Avec cette méthode vous pourrez apprendre, réviser ou découvrir toutes ces 5 langues (y compris peut-être votre langue maternelle) en les comparant.La grammaire de chacune de ces langues est expliquée en français et en anglais.Pas de problème si vous ne connaissez pas ou ne souhaitez pas apprendre le latin ou le grec ancien.Si vous souhaitez apprendre le français et l'anglais et vous exercer, ou améliorer et tester votre français et votre anglais, et que vous connaissez déjà l'allemand, choisissez alors cette version.

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages
Author: John Hewson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027236496

This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.

Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, Shewing the Original Identity of Their Grammatical Structure

Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, Shewing the Original Identity of Their Grammatical Structure
Author: Franz Bopp
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027208743

The publication in 1816 of Bopp s "Uber das Conjugationssystem" can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The "Analytical Comparison" (1820) represents not merely a translation into English, as has been claimed in the literature, but a significant advance in theoretical clarity and methodological soundness. This reprint is accompanied by a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by J. D. Guigniaut, an introduction to "Analytical Comparison" by Friedrich Techmer, and a letter to Bopp by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Furthermore, the editor, E. F. K. Koerner, has added a Foreword, select bibliography, and index.

An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-century Grammars of English

An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-century Grammars of English
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027237522

In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars working in different disciplines of social history, and the history of education in particular, it is still true that major sections of the evidence are largely uncollected. This is especially so for school books: there is virtually a gap between the 18th century and the present grammatical tradition. This bibliography lists some 1930 works on English grammar published in the 19th century, mainly in Britain and the US, half of which are accompanied by short descriptions of their physical make-up, content and affiliation.