Indo-European, Greek and Latin: Phonology

These are the core lectures for Classical Moderations (and joint schools) special subject in Comparative Philology and for Literae Humaniores Paper V4 (the morphology course will be completed in weeks 1-4 of Trinity Term). They will be repeated next year. These informal lectures aim to introduce first-year undergraduates and other interested persons to the detailed history of Greek and Latin and to the grammar of their reconstructed ancestor, Indo-European; they also serve as an introduction to Indo- European and to the methods and aims of reconstruction. Basic knowledge of the two classical languages is helpful but not necessary and those taking Mods IB, IIA, or IIB are at no disadvantage.

There will be a large number of handouts and students will be encouraged, if they so wish, to do some elementary exercises; these are distributed at the end of each lecture and offer an opportunity for practice and reinforcement of new material and concepts. The Phonology course covers all the sounds reconstructed for the parent language and the rules of derivation, ending with the Laryngeal theory. The Morphology part will begin at the end of term with the declension of nouns.

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