[B-Greek] New edition of Horrocks, Greek: History of Language . . .

Terry Cook cookie99 at fuse.net
Mon Mar 7 09:05:20 EST 2011


"I'm going to have to buy it"

Golly at $159.87 (Amazon) I'd have to sell some furniture  :-)

Terry Cook
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From: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 9:00 AM
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [B-Greek] New edition of Horrocks, Greek: History of Language . . .

> There is a new edition of Horrock's
> Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers.
>
> The first edition was great.
> From the review it looks like the second edition is so good that I'm
> going to have to buy it, too.
>
> From <http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/11-05hor.htm>:
>
> I suppose the only thing missing in the volume would be a
> description of when and how the Greek language added time
> to the verb. [that was a joke, of course, the ancients knew that they
> already had it in the verb. :-)] But it illustrates how it can help to
> think of the language diachronically as well as synchronically, and
> one must ask diachronic questions of any synchronic position.
>
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