Understanding Language : A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairbairn, Donald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Latin language > Grammar, Comparative > Greek.
Latin language.
Greek language > Grammar, Comparative > Latin.
Greek language.
RELIGION > General.
Latin (Langue) > Manuels pour anglophones.
Grec (Langue) > Manuels pour anglophones.
Latin language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English.
Greek language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English.
Textbooks > for English speakers.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Getting started. Learning a foreign language: the bad news and the good news
  • Studying a dead language: why bother?
  • Building blocks of language
  • Nouns and the words that go with them. Expressing the relations between nouns
  • Adjectives, articles, and pronouns
  • Verbs: the heart of communication. What do verbs do?
  • Finite verb forms: a closer look at tense and mood
  • Special (non-finite) verbal forms: infinitives and participles
  • Looking at sentences as a whole
  • Words, phrases, clauses: putting them together
  • Reading a Greek or Latin sentence: some suggestions.

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