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Esquisse D'Une Histoire de La Langue Latine: Troisieme Edition Revisee Et Augmentee

Esquisse D'Une Histoire de La Langue Latine: Troisieme Edition Revisee Et Augmentee

Meillet, Antoine

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

LatinMiscellaneous Languages

ISBN10: 110800671X
ISBN13: 9781108006712
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 26 2009
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: French
Antoine Meillet mentored a generation of influential twentieth-century linguists and philologists, including Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet. One of the most influential comparative linguists of his time, he recognised that language is a social phenomenon, influenced by sociological factors. Originally published in 1933, this third edition of his 1928 history of Latin was the last to be published during his lifetime. In it, Meillet explores the historical context and significance of Latin. He describes how it developed from Indo-European and evolved according to the fluctuating fortunes of the Roman empire, imitating and borrowing from Greek in many ways but unified by the centralising influence of Rome. As the empire declined, the regional dialects of Latin began to develop into the modern Romance languages, with religion, philosophy and science ensuring the survival of Latin itself into the modern period.

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