书目

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Third Edition

内容简介

Fullyrevisedandupdatedbasedonthelatestlinguisticresearch,theAmericanHeritageDictionaryofIndo-EuropeanRoots,ThirdEditionbydistinguishedprofessorCalvertWatkinstracesover13,000wordsrepresentingnearly1,350basicrootstotheiroriginsinProto-Indo-European,theprehistoricancestorofEnglish.ThedictionaryincludesanintroductoryessaybyDr.Watkins,explaininghowitispossibletoreconstructthewordsofanancientandunwrittenlanguageanddescribingwhatscholarshavediscoveredaboutProto-Indo-Europeanculture.InterspersedthroughoutthebodyofthedictionaryareLanguageandCulturenotesthatprovidemoredetailedinformationonparticularlyinterestingrootsandthevocabularyderivedfromthem.TheDictionaryofIndo-EuropeanRootsisanindispensableresourceforanyoneinterestedinthehistoryofEnglishanditsplacewithintheIndo-Europeanlanguagefamily.

作者简介

CalvertWatkinsistheVictorS.ThomasProfessorofLinguisticsandtheClassics,Emeritus,atHarvardUniversity,andProfessor-in-ResidenceintheDepartmentofClassicsandthePrograminIndo-EuropeanStudiesattheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles.HespecializesinIndo-Europeancomparativelinguistics,especiallyLatin,Greek,Celtic,Hittite,andcomparativemorphologyandpoetics.Hewrotethe“AppendixofIndo-EuropeanRoots”forthefirsteditionofTheAmericanHeritageDictionaryandhasreviseditforthethird,fourth,andfiftheditions.

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