Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies: A Festschrift for Ladislav Zgusta on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)
Contributors: Hans Henrich Hock (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9783110128840
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Semantics (meaning); Linguistics; Language; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Indo-European languages; Historical linguistics; Lexicography
First sentence: The nineteenth-century edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon which I call my own refers to a controversy as to the correct meaning of polútropos, the adjective modifying the man about whom the Muse is asked to report: According to some scholars the meaning is 'multum iactatus', according to others 'uersatus, uersatilis'.