How to Learn Philology

1899. This book is a simple and introductory course for teachers and learners on philology. There has long been great need of a simple and introductory work on such subjects as, for example, etymology, textual criticism, analysis, the Indo-European language, the Greek dialects, and the leading scholars of the past, and this little work is an attempt to satisfy it. Contents: preparation for analysis of words; analysis of words; general questions on sound changes, and technical terms explained; pronunciation, accents and spelling; how sounds are made; the alphabets; meaning of words; some idiomatic uses of Greek particles with Latin equivalents; textual criticism and how to emend; a few scholars and philologists and their services.