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Bibliography I

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BIBLIOGRAPHY.-( I ) Latin in relation to other I.E. tongues: K. Brugmann, Kurze V ergleichende Grammatik (1904; bibl.) ; H. Hirt, Indogermanische Grammatik (4 vols., 1921-28, one further vol. announced to complete the work ; bibl.) ; A. Meillet and J. Vendryes, Traite de grammaire comparee des langues classiques (1924 ; bibl.).

(2) The non-Latin languages of ancient Italy: R. S. Conway,

The Italic Dialects (2 vols., 1897) ; R. S. Conway and J. Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy (in the press).

(3) Latin and the Romans: 0. Weise,

The Language and Character of the Roman People (Eng. trans. by H. A. Strong and A. Y. Campbell, 1909).

(4) The history of Latin: A brief historical survey is F. Stolz, revised by A. Debrunner, Geschichte der lateinische Sprache (1922; bibl.) (a) Sounds and inflexions: M. Niedermann, Eng. trans. by H. A. Strong and H. Stewart, Outlines of Latin Phonetics (two) ; F. Sommer, Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- and Formenlehre (2nd and 3rd ed., with his Kritische Erlduterungen, 1914; bibl.) ; W. M.

Lindsay, Short Historical Latin Grammar (2nd ed., 1915) ; A. C. Juret, Manuel de phonetique latine (1921) ; R. S. Conway, The Mak ing of Latin (1923) ; F. Stolz, 5th ed., revised by M. Leumann, Lateinische Grammatik (1926 ; bibl.) ; C. H. Grandgent, Introduction to Vulgar Latin (1907; bibl.), and From Latin to Italian (1927); A. Walde, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch (2nd ed., 191o) ; F. Muller Izn, Altitalisches W iirterbuch (1926). (b) Syntax: C. E. Bennett, Syntax of Early Latin ( 2 vols., 1910-14) ; J. H. Schmalz (with Stolz, see a above) Lateinische Grammatik (4th ed. 191o, bibl. 5th ed., revised by J. B. Hofmann, bibl. 1928) ; 0. Riemann, 7th edition, revised by A. Ernout, Syntaxe latine d'apres les principes de la grammaire historique (1927).

(5) Recent advances are summarized regularly in the periodical publications Bursian's Jahresbericht (since 1873), Glotta (since 1907), and Indogermanisches Jahrbuch (since 1912). (J. WIT.)