دانلود کتاب How Dead Languages Work

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HOW DEAD LANGUAGES WORK COULTER H. GEORGE
COPYRIGHT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Greek
THE SOUNDS OF GREEK
WORD FORMS
THE ILIAD
FORMULAS
THUCYDIDES AND ABSTRACT LANGUAGE
PAULINE PREPOSITIONS
Chapter 3: Latin
HOW LATIN WORKS
LUCRETIUS
HORACE AND HOUSMAN
TACITUS
Chapter 4: Old English and the Germanic languages
GRIMM’S LAW AND UMLAUT
VERBS, STRONG AND WEAK
OLD ENGLISH
BEOWULF
Chapter 5: Sanskrit
THE SOUNDS OF SANSKRIT
SANDHI
NOUNS IN SANSKRIT
THE RIG VEDA
HOW TO KILL A DRAGON
THE HIDDEN NAMES OF THE DAWN-COWS
Chapter 6: Old Irish and the Celtic languages
THE ECCENTRICITIES OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE
OLD IRISH IN ACTION
WELSH
Chapter 7: Hebrew
THE SOUNDS OF SEMITIC
HOW SEMITIC WORDS CHANGE SHAPE
LET THERE BE LIGHT
NOUN CHAINS
Epilogue and further reading
Index