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Klappentext An 1870s descriptive grammar of Latin! still remarkable for its breadth of examples and depth of analysis. Zusammenfassung Henry John Roby's two-volume descriptive Grammar of the Latin Language! first published in the 1870s! offers thorough linguistic analysis based on the works of classical writers from the early Latin period to the Silver Age. This first volume focuses on phonetics! noun and verb inflexions! and word formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Book I. Sounds: 1. Elements of speech, and particularly consonants; 2. Combination of consonants; 3. Vowels and combinations of vowels; 4. Laws of phonetic change; 5. Latin alphabet in general; 6. Latin alphabet in detail; 7. Gutturals and palatals; 8. Dentals and linguals; 9. Vowels; 10. Dipthongs; 11. Of Latin words and syllables; 12. Quantity of syllables; 13. Accentuation; Book II. Inflexions: 1. Of inflexions in general; 2. Of noun inflexions, and particularly of gender; 3. Of noun inflexions of number; 4. Of case inflexions in general; 5. Nouns of class I; 6. Old and exceptional forms of cases; 7. Peculiar declensions of certain pronouns and adjectives (Class I); 8. Personal pronouns; 9. Nouns of class II; 10. Nouns of class II cont.; 11. Nouns of class II cont.; 12. Old or exceptional forms of cases (Class II); 13. Greek nouns, class I; 14. Greek nouns, class II; 15. Adverbs and conjunctions; 16. Inflexions of verb; 17. Inflexions of person and number; 18. Inflexions of mood; 19. Classification of inflexions of tense; 20. Tenses formed from the present stem; 21. Of verb stems; 22. Tenses formed from the perfect stem; 23. Of the perfect stem; 24. Of the supine stem; 25. Of the traditional classification of verbs; 26. Examples of the complete inflexions of verbs; 27. Inflexions of the verb sum, and compounds; 28. Inflexions of some irregular verbs; 29. Alphabetical list of deponent verbs; 30. Alphabetical list of verbs, with their perfects, supines, &c.; Book III. Word-formation: 1. Elements of word-formation; 2. Derivative suffixes; 3. Labial noun-stems; 4. Guttural noun-stems; 5. Dental noun-stems; 6. Dental noun-stems cont.; 7. Lingual noun-stems; 8. Lingual noun-stems cont.; 9. Vowel noun-stems; 10. Verb-stems; 11. Composition; 12. Interjections; Appendices; Index....
