Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS -- II. THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES -- III. INDO-EUROPEAN AND LATIN -- IV. LATIN AND THE OTHER LANGUAGES OF ANCIENT ITALY -- V. THE ALPHABET -- VI. PRONUNCIATION -- VII. THE MORPHOLOGY OF NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES -- VIII. THE MORPHOLOGY OF VERBS -- IX. THE MORPHOLOGY OF ADVERBS AND OTHER PARTICLES -- X. THE FORMATION OF COMPOUNDS -- XI. THE SYNTAX OF NOUNS -- XII. THE SYNTAX OF VERBS -- XIII. VERSIFICATION WHEN -- XIV. POSTCLASSICAL LATIN AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- XV. LATIN AND ENGLISH -- XVI. HISTORICAL AND ORAL APPROACHES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY BY CHAPTERS -- INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX