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THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF ASIA AND THE
AMERICAS
This book, derived from the acclaimed
Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient
Languages
, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience
of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an
individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Pro-
viding a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s),
phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon of that language, and places the language within
its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international ar-
ray of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily
for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies
take them into the realm of ancient language.
Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew Van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics at the
University of Buffalo. His chief research interests lie generally within the areas of Greek and
Roman myth and religion, Indo-European culture and linguistics, the origin and develop-
ment of writing among the Greeks, and the interaction between Greece and the ancient
Near East. His other books include
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
(2007),
Indo-European Sacred Space
(2006),
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient
Languages
(2004),
Ovid’s Fasti
(with A. J. Boyle, 2000),
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer:
A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origins of the Greek Alphabet
(1997), and
On Interpreting
Morphological Change
(1990). He has also published numerous articles and served as
President of the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics from
1992 to 2001.
The Ancient
Languages of Asia
and the Americas
Edited by
roger d. woodard
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