Charts the historial spread of the classical languages throughout the English-speaking world and uncovers the central part they play in giving English its current shape. Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots takes readers on a journey of exploration through their own language, helping them to uncover just how central a part Greek and Latin play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and stimulating exercises, this book is entirely accessible to teachers and students with little or no knowledge of classical languages.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Latin Texts .

There are 74 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

James Morwood is Head of Classics at Harrow School, editor of the acclaimed Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary and co-author of the successful Oxford Latin Course.

This book has the following chapters: 1. The family of Latin languages; 2. The Romans in Britain; 3. Our Latin roots; 4. Building English from Latin; 5. How Greek entered English; 6. The Greeks had a word for it; 7. Latin Grammar and English - same or different?; 8. et cetera.