Benjamin Fortson's Books

Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

By: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

By: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV

This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field. Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

570

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1444359681

ISBN 13

9781444359688

Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

By: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indo-European Language and Culture

An Introduction

By: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

570

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1444359681

ISBN 13

9781444359688

Three Black Generations at the Crossroads

Community, Culture, and Conciousness

By: Lois Benjamin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Three Black Generations at the Crossroads

Community, Culture, and Conciousness

By: Lois Benjamin

Drawing on research and interviews in an ongoing project on black professionals in the US and utilizing the postfigurative, cofigurative, and prefigurative models of anthropologist Margaret Mead, Benjamin has provided a neat structure to understand 20th-century US cultural values through the window of the African American community. Recommended for a variety of readers and students of the 20th century. --Choice Magazine

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0830415653

ISBN 13

9780830415656

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

By: Benjamin Fortson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

By: Benjamin Fortson

The plays of Plautus have long been recognized as a unique mine of information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. But detailed and up-to-date linguistic treatments of the Plautine meters and other phenomena in his plays have hitherto been lacking. This book seeks to remedy that gap by presenting a series of case-studies to glean information about the synchronic grammar of Plautine Latin, in particular the rhythmic organization of Latin speech and the effects of syntactic processes on Latin prosodic phonology. Some of the topics, such as enjambement and the aphaeresis of “est”, have never before received such treatment, while others, such as Meyer’s and Luchs’s laws, split resolutions, and iambic shortening, are provided a firmer linguistic footing, and fuller discussion of allied issues, than hitherto. Topics in Italic syntax (such as the syntactic structure of adpositional phrases and their history) and in Indo-European morphophonology (such as the prosodic status of finite verbs) are dealt with as well, as is an investigation into the effects of pragmatics on the rhythmic organization of phrases. The book will be of interest to classicists, comparative philologists, and general linguists.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published Date

ISBN 10

3110210029

ISBN 13

9783110210026

America Votes!

A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights

By: Benjamin E. Griffith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

America Votes!

A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights

By: Benjamin E. Griffith

This book is a snapshot of America's voting and electoral practices, problems, and most current issues. The book addresses a variety of fundamental areas concerning election law from a federal perspective such as the Help America Vote Act, lessons learned from the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, voter identification, and demographic and statistical experts in election litigation, and more. It is a useful guide for lawyers as well as law school professors, election officials, state and local government personnel, and election workers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

American Bar Association

Published Date

ISBN 10

1590319729

ISBN 13

9781590319727

Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline, or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that African American Studies use a well-defined common approach in examining history, politics, and the family in the same way as scholars in the disciplines of economics, sociology, and political science. Other scholars consider African American Studies multidisciplinary, a field somewhat comparable to the field of education in which scholars employ a variety of disciplinary lenses-be they anthropological, psychological, historical, etc., --to study the African world experience. In this model the boundaries between traditional disciplines are accepted, and researches in African American Studies simply conduct discipline based an analysis of particular topics. Finally, another group of scholars insists that African American Studies is interdisciplinary, an enterprise that generates distinctive analyses by combining perspectives from d

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

Black Classic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1580730396

ISBN 13

9781580730396

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

By: Benjamin Bederson,Herbert Walther

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

By: Benjamin Bederson,Herbert Walther

Praise for Previous Volumes "This volume maintains the authoritative standards of the series...The editors and publishers are to be congratulated" - M.S. CHILD in PHYSICS BULLETIN "Maintains the high standards of earlier volumes in the series...All the series are written by experts in the field, and their summaries are most timely...Strongly recommended." - G. HERZBERG in AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

429

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0080561462

ISBN 13

9780080561462

Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

By: Benjamin C. Ridgeway

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

By: Benjamin C. Ridgeway

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was founded in 1886. The name Ebenezer means "rock or stone of help." From a small group of believers, many of whom were former slaves, in a boxlike structure on Airline Alley, Ebenezer has grown to an internationally known church with over 4,000 members. The Gothic architecture of the Heritage Sanctuary on Auburn Avenue, coupled with the influence of the African meetinghouse seen in the architecture of the Horizon Sanctuary across the street, reflects the diversity of outreach of Ebenezer's ministry. Ebenezer has been a beacon of racial pride and social consciousness. The love and cooperation between the members and the pastor have created a family atmosphere that has sustained the growth and expansion of the church.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0738567981

ISBN 13

9780738567983

The Black Elite

Still Facing the Color Line in the Twenty-first Century

By: Lois Benjamin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Black Elite

Still Facing the Color Line in the Twenty-first Century

By: Lois Benjamin

Using in-depth interviews of high achieving African Americans who came of age prior to or before the Civil Rights movement and those who grew up in the post-Civil Rights era, this book documents that race still matters in the twenty-first century. The work details the lived experiences of African Americans and how they grapple daily with what W. E. Du Bois called the double consciousness, living within and between two worlds. A new chapter details how the post-Civil Rights generation interprets and navigates the racial terrain differently than the Civil Rights generation, which has implication for group identity and group mobility.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742541851

ISBN 13

9780742541856

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

By: Benjamin Fortson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

By: Benjamin Fortson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published Date

ISBN 10

3110210029

ISBN 13

9783110210026

Studies in the Prosody of Plautine Latin

By: Benjamin W. Fortson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Studies in the Prosody of Plautine Latin

By: Benjamin W. Fortson

Titus Maccius Plautus (ca. 354-184 B.C.) is the first Roman author whose works are preserved for us in any considerable quantity. His output consists of Latin adaptations of comedies of Menander, Demophilus, Diphilus, Philemon, and other exponents of Greek New Comedy. In these adaptations, Plautus introduced much original material of a distinctly Roman flavor, preserving a precious trove of the colloquial Archaic Latin of the third and early second centuries B.C. Benjamin Fortson takes a close look at metrical distributions and phonological phenomena in the prosody of these works, illuminating not only early Roman poetic practice, but revealing important features of Archaic Latin as it was spoken.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0415970482

ISBN 13

9780415970488

Book's by Benjamin Fortson

Indo-European Language and Culture

Indo-European Language and Culture

Indo-European Language and Culture

Indo-European Language and Culture

Three Black Generations at the Crossroads

Three Black Generations at the Crossroads

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

America Votes!

America Votes!

Introduction to African American Studies

Introduction to African American Studies

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

The Black Elite

The Black Elite

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Studies in the Prosody of Plautine Latin

Studies in the Prosody of Plautine Latin

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email