and the second is replaced by its long counterpart. Lectures on Syntax Wackernagel read two courses in 1918-1919, while being a Rector, on "the elements of syntax with special reference to Greek, Latin and German". Lectures notes were taken by two of his students. "First series" of lectures were published in 1920, it contained themes of "number, voice, tense, mood, and the non-finite forms of the verb". The book was successful, and in 1924 the "second series" were published "on gender, nouns and adjectives, pronouns, the article, prepositions, and negation". Second edition was published in 1926 and 1928. The book was translated into English by David Langslow in 2009. Andreas Willi of the University of Oxford praised both Wackernagel's work and Langslow's translation, writing "A hallmark feature of Wackernagel's Lectures is their accessible style, which makes them easy to read from cover to cover. Langslow impressively succeeds in preserving this feature: while not being slavish, his translation is both accurate and idiomatic." Bibliography Jacob Wackernagel, Altindische Grammatik Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax: with special reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic, edited and translated by David Langslow, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (original edition: 1920–1924). Notes and references External links Biography at Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital 1853 births 1938 deaths People from Basel-Stadt Linguists from Switzerland Linguists of Germanic languages Linguists of Indo-European languages Sanskrit grammarians Sanskrit scholars Swiss Indologists 19th-century linguists 20th-century linguists Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala