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Historical
Languages
A truly classical
education has always included a study of ancient or
archaic languages. This page contains a small but
growing collection of books meant to stimulate a
young person's interest in such languages.
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Ages 12 and up
A Book for the
Beginner in Anglo-Saxon
by William Shepard
This
elementary-level
grammar and reader of Anglo-Saxon (also called
Old English, spoken from A.D. 500-1100) is a
digital reprinting of a hard-to-find 1877
publication. Included in this grammar are
extensive verb conjugations and noun and pronoun
declensions, all designed for the beginning
student of the language. Also features almost 30
pages of extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Gospels.
Paperback ~ 95 pp. ~ $19.95
with 20%
discount, $15.96
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Ages 12 and up
First Middle
English Primer
by Henry Sweet
This
elementary
handbook in Middle English (spoken from A.D.
1100-1500), first published in 1884, was written
by one of the premier authorities on English
historical linguistics, Henry Sweet, who is now
widely remembered as the model for the Henry
Higgins character in Shaw's Pygmalion. This
handy manual introduces students to two slightly
different varieties of Middle English. Part I
contains a brief grammar and representative
extracts from the 13th century Ancren Riwle or
"Nuns' Rule" in the southern dialect. Part II is
a brief grammar with extracts from the Ormulum,
a late 12th century work of poetic homilies of
the life of Christ, in East Midland dialect.
Paperback ~ 96 pp. ~ $19.95
with 20%
discount, $15.96 |
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For Advanced
Students
The Languages of
Classical Antiquity Series (LCA)
Ancient Mediterranean Europe is best known to us
from Greek and Roman sources, yet the area was
also inhabited by a variety of other tribes and
ethnic groups. Most of these peoples left scarce
record that they ever existed, but history,
archaeology and philology have been able to revive
the world's knowledge of these ancient cultures.
We are pleased to provide, in one series, the
fruits of extensive scholarly labor in these
lesser-known languages. Drawing on evidence from
long-buried inscriptions and papyri, as well as
fragments from literary sources, the LCA series
brings together unique and precious testaments to
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The Languages of Classical Antiquity Series
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For Advanced
Students
The American
Language Reprint Series (ALR)
During the early history of the American nation, a
number of explorers, scholars and missionaries
sought to record the languages of the native
peoples they encountered. As many of the native
American tribes dwindled into extinction, the need
became all the more pressing to preserve their
languages for posterity, and Americans who were
keenly anxious to promote their country's heritage
went through great pains to make sure that the
ancient tongues of the American landscape would
not pass into obscurity unrecorded.
The ALR series was conceived expressly for the
preservation and promotion of these shorter
linguistic records, vocabularies of only a few
hundred entries or less. These vocabularies are
crucial in filling in the vast linguistic gaps
that the larger works leave empty. They cover a
whole host of Eastern Woodlands languages that
were never thoroughly documented, and they are
also particularly useful in preserving regional
dialects and archaic versions of languages that
are otherwise well attested.
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The American Language Reprint Series
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