Several years back Michael Weiss, an Indo-Europeanist at Cornell, offered on his website a fine outline of the evolution of Latin grammar from PIE to the classical era. Weiss recently published this Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 2009), though regrettably through a no-name press that isn’t [...]
The longest extant text in the Etruscan language is the Liber Linteus, the linen wrapping of a mummy now held in the National Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. I saw this mummy several years ago during a trip to Croatia, and I regret that at the time I had no idea of the import of what [...]