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  • Priscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia

    Series series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
    Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy of the commentators to other cultures.Tantalisingly, Priscian fully recorded in Greek the answers ... Read more

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  • Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

    With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic

    Edited by David Langslow ...
    This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages. Out of print in German since 1996, these lectures remain the best available introduction, in any language, not only to Greek, Latin ... Read more

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    Differences between British and American English

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  • From Sound to Meaning in Context

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    Series Book 8 - Text – Meaning – Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture
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