Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

Paul Lloyd presents an historical grammar of Spanish that includes twentieth-century research on Romance and Spanish languages. He offers a synthesis of the research that has illuminaated much of the phonetic and morphological development of Spanish.

本词典共收入词目45,000条，其中包括基本词汇、一般词汇和科学技术词汇，以及外来语、古希腊与古罗马的人名、地名等。此外，还在有关词条内收入拉丁语句、词组、习语、格言及谚语等。