The Early Latin Verb System
The Early Latin Verb System

Author: Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0191526134

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This is the first comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system. In order to see what functions such forms fulfil, one has to compare their usage to that of the regular verb forms. In Part 1, Wolfgang de Melo outlines the usage of regular verb forms, which, surprisingly, has not always been described adequately in the standard grammars. In Part 2, the central part of the book, he compares the usage of the extra-paradigmatic verb forms to that of the regular ones, restricting himself to Archaic Latin (roughly before 100 BC); here he makes many new and unexpected discoveries. In Part 3, de Melo shows how synchronic usage can help us to reconstruct earlier stages of the language which are not attested; he also points out that, while most of the extra-paradigmatic forms die out after 100 BC, some survive - and that such survival is by no means a matter of chance.

The Early Latin Verb System
The Early Latin Verb System

Author: Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0199209022

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This is the first comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system. In order to see what functions such forms fulfil, one has to compare their usage to that of the regular verb forms. In Part 1, Wolfgang de Melo outlines the usage of regular verb forms, which, surprisingly, has not always been described adequately in the standard grammars. In Part 2, the central partof the book, he compares the usage of the extra-paradigmatic verb forms to that of the regular ones, restricting himself to Archaic Latin (roughly before 100 BC); here he makes many new and unexpected discoveries. In Part 3, de Melo shows how synchronic usage can help us to reconstruct earlierstages of the language which are not attested; he also points out that, while most of the extra-paradigmatic forms die out after 100 BC, some survive - and that such survival is by no means a matter of chance.

Early Latin
Early Latin

Author: J. N. Adams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 1108751636

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This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.

Early and Late Latin
Early and Late Latin

Author: J. N. Adams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1107132258

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This book focuses on the continuity between the documented stages in the history of Latin and its development into Romance.

Greek – Latin – Slavic
Greek – Latin – Slavic

Author: Barbora Machajdíková

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2023-04-24

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 3823395270

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The volume is intended for classical philologists and a broad range of scholars working in the fields of theoretical, historical, and comparative linguistics with Ancient Greek, Latin, or Slavic languages as the primary evidence in their research. The contributions address topics ranging from issues of grammatography in a diachronic perspective to historical and comparative linguistics. They encompass both monothematic case studies and comprehensive analyses that capture a linguistic phenomenon in its entirety as well as within a broader context.

Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin
Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin

Author: Łukasz Berger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1009123033

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The first major study of politeness in Ancient Greece and Rome, from effusive greetings to aggressive humour and friendly banter.

Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meaning
Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meaning

Author: Lucie Pultrová

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-11-18

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 3111332950

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This two-volume work contains a selection of papers first presented at the 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Prague (2023). The papers address important issues in Latin linguistics with a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The first volume ("Word") contains texts concerning Latin phonology, etymology, flexion and derivation, and lexical semantics, both with respect to individual words and to entire word classes. Both diachronic and synchronic perspectives are employed in the discussion of the various issues. The second volume ("Clause and Discourse") includes papers dealing with issues of syntax and semantics, and with the structure of texts and pragmatic aspects. One of the subchapters, entitled "Conversation and Dialogue", contains papers presented at the conference in a separate workshop of the same name, linked by a common methodological framework of "Conversation Analysis". This book provides essential texts for researchers in the field of Latin linguistics and may also be of use to linguists who work primarily with other languages.

Style in Latin Poetry
Style in Latin Poetry

Author: Paolo Dainotti, Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa, Stephen Harrison

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-03-04

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 3111067939

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Classical Philology and Linguistics
Classical Philology and Linguistics

Author: Georgios K. Giannakis

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 3111273008

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There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the nineteenth century, the history of this debate testifies to a turbulent coexistence and fertile collaboration of the two disciplines, but at times also moving along centrifugal paths. The essays in this volume address this debate and cover various aspects of linguistic and philological research of Greek and Latin, moving in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other highlighting the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts and drawing on fields such as syntactic theory and pragmatics, historical semantics and the lexicon, reconstruction and etymology, dialectology, editorial practices, the use of corpora, and other interdisciplinary approaches that function as hinges between philology and linguistics.