TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

The present volume mainly contains contributions on the classical language, Greek and Latin. In addition to the historical comparative linguistic aspects of the

Discusses all aspects of language change as a dynamic process against a background of the differing approaches of the structuralist, neogrammarian and transform

Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries n