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This volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral language until the end of the second century CE. As the first English-language treatment of the history of Latin and its speakers in four decades, this study fills a critical need in classical and linguistic scholarship.
Chapter 1 Indo-European and the Indo-European languages
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The comparative method and and the regularity principle
1.3 The method of internal reconstruction
1.4 Genetic classification and family trees
1.5 The Indo-European language family
1.6 Aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture and civilization
1.7 Summary
Chapter 2 An outline of Proto-Indo-European
2.1 Phonology
2.2 Morphology
2.3 Syntax
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Ancient Italy and its Indo-Europeanization
3.1 The European Stone Age and its reflection in Italy
3.2 The Metal Ages
3.3 Rome
3.4 The Etruscans
3.5. The people of ancient Italy
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 The languages of ancient Italy
4.1 Sources of information
4.2 Samples of the Italic languages
4.3 Samples of non-Italic languages
4.4 Interrelations with Italic
4.5 Relationships between the Italic and other Indo-European languages
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Materials for the study of Latin
5.1 Samples of Latin inscriptions, with commentary
5.2 Continuous texts
5.3 Literary texts
5.4 Spoken Latin
5.5 Graffiti
5.6 Letters
Chapter 6 The development of the Latin phonological system from PIE
6.1 The vowels and laryngeals
6.2 The consonants
6.3 Summary
Chapter 7 The development of the Latin morphological system from PIE
7.1 The parts of speech
7.2 Nouns and adjectives
7.3 Pronouns
7.4 Comparison of adjectives
7.5 Adverbs
7.6 Numerals
7.7 Undeclined forms
7.8 The verb
7.9 Summary