Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought by Probert, Philomen

Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198841609)

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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought by Probert, Philomen

Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought

$140.00
Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought by Probert, Philomen

Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent offers a fresh perspective on a long-standing debate about the value of Latin grammarians writing about the Latin accent: should the information they give us be taken seriously, or should much of it be dismissed as copied mindlessly from Greek sources? This book focusses on understanding the Latin grammarians on their own terms: what they actually say about accents, and what they mean by it. Careful examination of Greek and Latin grammatical texts leads to a better understanding of the workings of Greek grammatical theory on prosody, and of its interpretation in the Latin grammatical tradition. It emerges that Latin grammarians took over from Greek grammarians a system of grammatical description that operated on two levels: an abstract level that we are not supposed to be able to hear, and the concrete level of audible speech. The two levels are linked by a system of rules. Some points of Greek thought on prosody were taken over onto the abstract level and not intended as statements about the actual sound of Latin, while other points were so intended. While this book largely sets aside the question whether the Latin grammarians tell us the truth about the Latin accent, focussing instead on understanding what they actually say, it begins to offer answers for those wishing to know when to 'believe' Latin grammarians in the traditional sense: the book shows which of their statements are intended - and which are not intended - as statements about the actual sound of Latin.

Author: Philomen Probert
ISBN-10: 0198841604
ISBN-13: 9780198841609
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2019
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d

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Choice 06/01/2021
By Philomen Probert
By Philomen Probert
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Philomen Probert, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Philomen Probert is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She is the author of A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (Bloomsbury, 2003), Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory (OUP, 2006), and Early Greek Relative Clauses (OUP, 2015), as well as co-editor of Laws and Rules in Indo-European with Andreas Willi (OUP, 2012).

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