CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. I. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 1
5. II. THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES 14
6. III. INDO-EUROPEAN AND LATIN 25
7. IV. LATIN AND THE OTHER LANGUAGES OF ANCIENT ITALY 37
8. V. THE ALPHABET 44
9. VI. PRONUNCIATION 61
10. VII. THE MORPHOLOGY OF NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES 79
11. VIII. THE MORPHOLOGY OF VERBS 97
12. IX. THE MORPHOLOGY OF ADVERBS AND OTHER PARTICLES 127
13. X. THE FORMATION OF COMPOUNDS 136
14. XI. THE SYNTAX OF NOUNS 143
15. XII. THE SYNTAX OF VERBS 166
16. XIII. VERSIFICATION WHEN 200
17. XIV. POSTCLASSICAL LATIN AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES 230
18. XV. LATIN AND ENGLISH 246
19. XVI. HISTORICAL AND ORAL APPROACHES 255
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY BY CHAPTERS 263
21. INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY 277
22. GENERAL INDEX 279