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Comparative grammar

Greek Latin

A comparative grammar of the two classical languages across five dimensions — 129 comparanda — anchored, where verified, on the site's two reference grammars, Woodcock (Latin) and Smyth (Greek), and grounded in the comparative scholarship (Whiton, Sihler, Pinkster, Mason, Oniga).

Syntax (81)

Whiton's parallel rules: the case correspondences (Greek genitive ⟺ Latin ablative…), the moods, conditions, indirect discourse — anchored, where verified, to Woodcock §§ and Smyth §§.

Morphology

The Indo-European background (Sihler): case-syncretism, the dual, augment, aorist↔perfect, the optative→Latin subjunctive.

Semantics

Tense vs aspect, case as valency, factive/potential, the subjunctive's value (Pinkster).

Pragmatics

Word order & Focus, the article vs articleless Latin, second-position particles, question particles (Pinkster, Oniga).

Vocabulary

The Greek↔Roman institutional lexicon (Mason): ὕπατος≈consul, σύγκλητος≈senatus, ἐξουσία≈imperium…

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