ENGLISH

Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages

By Joseph B. Solodow

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
0521515750, 9780521515757, 9780511658518, 0521734185, 9780521734189
LCC
PA2057 .S65 2009
Open Library ID
OL23397852M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2759166 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
364\370
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Латинский язык;Теория и истори

Description

In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how every important feature of Latin's evolution is also reflected in English. His story includes scores of intriguing etymologies, along with many concrete examples of texts, studies, scholars, anecdotes, and historical events; observations on language; and more. Written with crystalline clarity, this is the first book to tell the story of the Romance languages for the general reader and to illustrate so amply Latin's many-sided survival in English as well.

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