Göttingen University introductions into the study of some old languages

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Göttingen University introductions into the study of some old languages

Postby Kraut » Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:06 am

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Ancient indo-European Grammars online

https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/index.html

Indo-European Linguistics has produced a wealth of knowledge about the grammars of Ancient Indo-European languages, which has substantially advanced our understanding of the history of language and the human past in general. Since this knowledge is scattered over thousands of scientific publications of the past two centuries (and ongoing), access to these languages and their fascinating features and histories is reserved to specialists. The aim of this project is to help unearth this treasure and to present it to a wider audience in an easily accessible and up-to-date form. In line with this vision, a team of experts on Indo-European languages from all over the world offers courses introducing twelve of the most important Indo-European languages and their grammars.
The lectures took place between October 2018 and February 2020 at the University of Göttingen. They were recorded by Ralf Köster and his team at the University and State Library Video Studio. This production is part of the project Ancient Indo-European Languages for the 21st Century, funded by the programme "Internationalization of Curricula" at the University of Göttingen and the Linguistics Department (Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar) at Göttingen.
This online resource was first launched in November 2020, while digital communication was the only means for communicating scientifc results. We were looking forward to the day after, hoping that this resource will be a welcome complement of uncontaminated grammar books and touchable grammarians.

The project team


https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/lng-olt.html

Old Lithuanian

is attested from the 16th century onwards. It is similar to the modern language, and many of its peculiarities can still be found today in modern dialects (see introduction). The language has a complex accent system (see sounds) which is actually transmitted in early writings. It has a dual, so-called postpositive local cases and, most remarkably, many athematic verbs (see words). The syntax of Old and Modern Lithuanian is remarkable for absolute constructions and the modus relativus, a verbal mood for expressing indirect speech and propositional attitudes formed with participles (see structures).


https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/ ... NT-001.mp4

Lecturers
Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė

University of Frankfurt
Jurgis Pakerys

Vilnius University

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Hittite

https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/lng-hit.html

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Old Irish

https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/lng-sga.html

https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/ ... NT-001.mp4


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Re: Göttingen University introductions into the study of some old languages

Postby Fuerza » Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:22 pm

This is pretty cool. It would make a great supplement/complement to the free courses at UT Austin.

https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol
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