Hand-outs from linguistics lectures

  • Indo-European: what is it and how do we know?

    (JACT Ancient Greek Summer School, 2009)

    An introduction to historical linguistics, reconstruction and Proto-Indo-European for school students

  • Syntax (1A, Lent 2009)

    An introduction to some methods of syntactic analysis and an application to conditional sentences in Greek

    1. Syntax: definitions and boundaries [pdf]
    2. Syntactic analysis 1 - Constituency and Dependency [pdf]
    3. Syntactic analysis 2 - Government and Concord [pdf]
    4. Applied Syntax: Conditionals and negation [pdf]
  • Language of Homer (1B, Lent 2007)

    An account of the different dialectal and diachronic elements in the Homeric Kunstsprache.

    1. Homer - The Singer of Tales [pdf]
    2. The Dialects [pdf]
    3. Metrical Considerations [pdf]
  • Phonology (1B, Lent 2005)

    A consideration of the nature of phonological systems, an introduction to the principles of sound change and a description of the major sound changes which occurred in Greek and Latin.

    1. Phonological Systems [pdf]
    2. Structure and Neutralisation [pdf]
    3. Properties of Sound Change [pdf]
    4. Properties of Sound Change 2 [pdf]
    5. Latin Vowels [pdf]
    6. Sound Change in Greek [pdf]
  • Morphology and Syntax (1A, Lent 2003)

    Introducing some theoretical terminology and applying it to Greek and Latin.

    1. Definitions and Scope [pdf]
    2. Syntax [pdf]
    3. Nominal morphology - case [pdf]
    4. Nominal morphology - case syncretism [pdf]
    5. Nominal morphology - number and gender [pdf]
    6. Verbal morphology - tense and aspect [pdf]
    7. Tense and aspect in Greek and Latin, and introduction to modality [pdf]
    8. The moods in Homeric Greek [pdf]