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

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Mar 7 09:19:54 EST 2011


On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Terry Cook wrote:

> "I'm going to have to buy it"
> 
> Golly at $159.87 (Amazon) I'd have to sell some furniture  :-)

Perhaps you could use it for furniture? ;-)

> --------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Randall Buth, PhD
>> www.biblicallanguagecenter.com
>> Biblical Language Center
>> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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