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Author: Christopher Francese Publisher: ISBN: 9781947822061 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The DCC Core Vocabulary lists represent the 1,000 most common words in Latin and the 500 most common words in ancient Greek. Data for the Latin list comes from 1.7 million words hand analyzed by the Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes, and 800,000 words hand analyzed by Paul B. Diederich ("The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings." Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1939). The frequency rankings are derived from LASLA, and do not take Diederich's counts into consideration. Data for the Greek list comes from subset of the comprehensive Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database (kindly provided by Maria Pantelia), and the corpus of Greek authors at Perseus under PhiloLogic (kindly provided by Helma Dik of the University of Chicago). Definitions were adapted from various sources. This work of data analysis, word selection, and editing was carried out by Chris Francese in 2012¿13, with valuable help from the following: Wilfred Major of Louisiana State University; Eric Casey of Sweet Briar College; Meghan Reedy and Marc Mastangelo, both of Dickinson College; Dickinson students Alice Ettling, James Martin, Meredith Wilson, Derek Frymark, and Qingyu Wang; graduate student Alex Lee of the University of Chicago; and web developer Ryan Burke.
Author: Christopher Francese Publisher: ISBN: 9781947822061 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The DCC Core Vocabulary lists represent the 1,000 most common words in Latin and the 500 most common words in ancient Greek. Data for the Latin list comes from 1.7 million words hand analyzed by the Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes, and 800,000 words hand analyzed by Paul B. Diederich ("The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings." Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1939). The frequency rankings are derived from LASLA, and do not take Diederich's counts into consideration. Data for the Greek list comes from subset of the comprehensive Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database (kindly provided by Maria Pantelia), and the corpus of Greek authors at Perseus under PhiloLogic (kindly provided by Helma Dik of the University of Chicago). Definitions were adapted from various sources. This work of data analysis, word selection, and editing was carried out by Chris Francese in 2012¿13, with valuable help from the following: Wilfred Major of Louisiana State University; Eric Casey of Sweet Briar College; Meghan Reedy and Marc Mastangelo, both of Dickinson College; Dickinson students Alice Ettling, James Martin, Meredith Wilson, Derek Frymark, and Qingyu Wang; graduate student Alex Lee of the University of Chicago; and web developer Ryan Burke.
Author: Mark Williams Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9780615702506 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 212
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This book is designed to help beginning and intermediate students master the vocabulary necessary to read real Latin with fluency and comprehension. It also serves as a resource for instructors and tutors. The text presents 1,425 words that allow a student to comprehend about 95 percent of all the vocabulary they will ever see in an actual Latin text. The terms found in the present book have been culled from statistical analyses of the works of more than two hundred authors in order to identify the core vocabulary. Were students to start out by learning the 25 most common words on this list, an astonishing 29 percent of all the vocabulary ever needed would be at their command. If a student masters the 300 most frequent words in this list, well over half of all the vocabulary necessary for fluent reading will be theirs. The goal of the book is to provide the student with the most efficient way to learn vocabulary. Chapters 1 and 2, in particular, are designed for drill, review, and study. The first chapter draws together all words that share the same grammatical classification. For example, all third declension neuter nouns are brought together in one place, with their definitions. By listing the vocabulary in grammatical groups, all the words that share a set of endings are assembled for the student: vocabulary and endings thus reinforce each other. Furthermore, each list of terms is broken down into groups of five words for ease in drawing up vocabulary lists to work with. Within the grammatical lists, each part of speech is preceded by an account of how the terms within are distributed. A student thus quickly learns that while there are 413 verbs that need to be mastered, well over one-third of these (157) are found in the third conjugation, while only about one per-cent (21) will be found in the fourth conjugation. With such information, independent students or instructors can prioritize their study and assignments more appropriately. In the second chapter, large parts of the vocabulary, with their attendant definitions, are regrouped by topics. A student who wishes, therefore, to focus on nature, human emotions, or military issues, will find such vocabulary conveniently grouped together. Chapter three lists the vocabulary terms from the most frequently occurring words to the least frequent. Students or instructors who wish to lean more heavily on the most (or least!) frequently occurring terms within their drills and studies can thus consult this frequency list. After the frequency list, the fourth chapter presents an alphabetical index of the terms. Two final chapters close the text. The first is a list of endings and paradigms for nouns, adjectives and verbs. Complete paradigms and endings are given for review. The final chapter provides the student with an additional one hundred words that are uniquely common in the Latin of the Middle Ages. These one hundred words, if added to the mix, would give the student a Mediaeval vocabulary that would match the efficiency of the Classical vocabulary that is the main focus of the book. For the effort of learning an additional one hundred words, another 1,000 years of Latin texts open up before the student. As a whole, then, this book offers the vocabulary that forms the core of one thousand seven hundred years of Latin literature. If the goal is to learn to read Latin with joy and ease, then the vocabulary terms in this book are one of the major keys to success. By learning these terms, a student's vocabulary should be ready to tackle the Latin of any era from the Classical period to the Renaissance.
Author: Eleanor Dickey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108897347 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 748
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Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.
Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521698510 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 29
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Second edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. The texts and numerous illustrations also provide a good introduction to Greek culture.
Author: Donald J. Mastronarde Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520954998 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 509
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Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: • Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts • Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises • Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax • Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides. • Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language • Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms • Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources: •Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org •Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)
Author: Peter Jones Publisher: Bristol Classical Press ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 232
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Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin", this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read selected passages from the New Testament and from Classical Greek literature.
Author: Alex Mullen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113956062X Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 409
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Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.
Author: John Taylor Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474255183 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 225
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First written in response to a JACT survey of over 100 schools, and now endorsed by OCR, this textbook has become a standard resource for students in the UK and for readers across the world who are looking for a clear and thorough introduction to the language of the ancient Greeks. Revised throughout and enhanced by coloured artwork and text features, this edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016). Part 1 covers the basics and is self-contained, with its own reference section. It covers the main declensions, a range of active tenses and a vocabulary of 250 Greek words to be learned. Pupil confidence is built up by constant consolidation of the material covered. After the preliminaries, each chapter concentrates on stories with one source or subject: Aesop, Homer's Odyssey and Alexander the Great, providing an excellent introduction to Greek culture alongside the language study. Written by a long-time school teacher and examiner, this two-part course is based on experience of what pupils find difficult, concentrating on the essentials and on the understanding of principles in both accidence and syntax: minor irregularities are postponed and subordinated so that the need for rote learning is reduced. It aims to be user-friendly, but also to give pupils a firm foundation for further study.
Author: Christopher Francese
Author: Christopher Francese
Author: Mark Williams
Author: Eleanor Dickey
Author: William Bishop Owen
Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course
Author: Thomas Dwight Goodell
Author: Donald J. Mastronarde
Author: Peter Jones
Author: Alex Mullen
Author: John Taylor