RT Book
T1 What Graeco-Roman grammar was about
T2 Oxford scholarship online
A1 Matthews, Peter 1934-2023
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2019
ED First edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1689862076
AB This title explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure of the languages they taught. The volume focuses primarily on the early centuries AD, a time when the Roman Empire was at its peak; in this period, a grammarian not only had a secure place in the ancient system of education, but could take for granted an established technical understanding of language. By delineating what that ancient model of grammar was, P.H. Matthews highlights both those aspects that have persisted to this day and seem reassuringly familiar, such as 'parts of speech', as well as those aspects that are wholly dissimilar to our present understanding of grammar and language. The volume is written to be accessible to students of linguistics from undergraduate level upwards, and assumes no knowledge of Latin or Ancient Greek.
CN 475
SN 978-0-19-186846-7
K1 Greek Language : Grammar
K1 Latin language : Grammar
K1 Greek language ; Grammar
K1 Latin language ; Grammar
DO 10.1093/oso/9780198830115.001.0001