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The book usually known as Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer has remained, with good reason, the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in British schools for many decades. Kennedy's New Latin Primer from Tiger Xenophon was the first entirely new edition in two generations.

The book usually known as Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer has remained, with good reason, the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in British schools for many decades. Kennedy's New Latin Primer from Tiger Xenophon was the first entirely new edition in two generations. This second edition builds on and refines the first edition.

Middle High German embraces the High German language from about 1100 to 1500. It is divided into three dialect groups: Upper German, Franconian and East Middle German. This book restricts itself to Upper German between about 1200 and 1300.As well as a grammar and glossary, the primer provides texts from Berthold von Regensburg, the Swabian Lantrehtbuoch, Hartman von Ouwe, Walther von der Vogelweide, Reinmar, Ulrich von Lichtenstein, Das Niebel...

Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer is possibly the most popular Old English textbook ever written, and with good reason. It is brief and accessible without being unduly simplistic. Students will find that the grammar and glossary make the sample texts far less daunting than they might expect, and will give them the confidence to read more widely in Old English.Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a leading expert on phonetics and Old English and was partly the...

Ce livre donne comme introduction quelques notions élémentaires à l'étude de l'ancien français, que l'on trouve dans La Chanson de Roland, et dans les oeuvres de Marie de France, de Geoffroi de Villehardouin et de Chrétien de Troyes. Il est tiré de la quatrième édition de M. Anglade. Le texte et les notes bibliographiques ont été revus et corrigés. This book offers a gentle introduction to the study of Old French, the language found in the...

The present dialects of Italy are descendants of Latin. But in nearly all regions it was a Latin influenced in its vocabualry and pronunciation by the earlier linguistic habits of the populations that had adopted it. These peoples contain a strong admixture of Ligurian, Gallic, Illyrian, Greek and Phoenician nationalities, and of Italic tribes whose native tongue was related to Latin, for instance, Umbrian and Oscan. Professor Grandgent prese...

Although it has no modern descendants, Gothic is a language of considerable importance in the study of the Germanic languages, including English. The surviving texts consist mostly of the New Testament translations commissioned by the fourth-century Bishop Wulfi la (Ulfi las). This classic grammar contains extracts from these texts. Joseph Wright (1855-1930) started work at the age of six as a donkey-boy in the local stone quarry. The next y...

Goodwin's Greek Grammar is one of the most authoritative texts on Classical Greek. It is both comprehensive and exceptionally accessible, making it suitable for use in schools as well as universities. After graduating from Harvard, William Watson Goodwin gained a PhD from Göttingen. He later received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. He was Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard.

Goodwin's Greek Grammar is one of the most authoritative texts on Classical Greek. It is both comprehensive and exceptionally accessible, making it suitable for use in schools as well as universities. After graduating from Harvard, William Watson Goodwin gained a PhD from Göttingen. He later received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. He was Eliot Professor

The modern study of Classical Latin creates the illusion that it is a precisely-defined and immutable language, but all living languages are changing continuously, and Latin was no exception. Even in the Classical period many varieties of Latin were written and spoken, and as the Empire collapsed Latin, especially the spoken language of the common people, evolved. This language, Vulgar Latin, not the medieval Latin of learned scholars, evolved...

Old Provencal was an important language spoken (in a variety of dialects) in Provence, Languedoc, Foix, Béarn, Gascony, Guyenne, Limousin, Marche Auvergne, the southestern half of Limousin and the southern half of Daupiné. It was also an important literary language, especially in the the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In particular, it was the language of the troubadours. A knowledge of the language is, therefore, of great value to medieval...

Müller's Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners is a classic text which offers the English-speaking reader a simple introduction to this most important of Indo-European languages. This edition contains a chapter on syntax and an appendix on classical Sanskrit metres. As Sir William Jones remarked way back in 1786, 'The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than Greek, more copious than Latin, and more...

Despite the many years which have passed since Sweet first published his Anglo-Saxon Reader, it remains a particularly appealing and useful anthology for the student of Old English. It contains extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, as well as poems (including part of Beowulf), riddles, charters and the Preface from King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care. Although most te...

A Comparative Germanic Grammar, Prokosch's acknowledged masterpiece, offers the student a comprehensive introduction to the phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages. It is accessible yet thorough.Eduard Prokosch (1876-1938) was the Sterling Professor of Germanic Languages at Yale University. He had previously taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryn Mawr College and New Y...