Early and late Latin : continuity or change? / edited by James Adams and Nigel Vincent ; with the assistance of Valerie Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, J. N. (James Noel), editor.

Vincent, Nigel, editor.

Knight, Valerie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language, Postclassical--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

Latin language, Postclassical.

Latin language, Preclassical to ca. 100 B.C--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

Latin language, Preclassical to ca. 100 B.C.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 470 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the development of the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in the written record (and Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they be superficial, reflecting different phenomena at different periods? Most of the chapters, on numerous syntactic and other topics and using different methodologies, have a long chronological range. All attempt to identify patterns of change that might undermine any theory of submerged continuity. The patterns found are summarised in a concluding chapter. The volume will appeal to classicists with an interest in any of the different periods of Latin, and also to Romance linguists.

Contents:

Continuity and change in the history of Latin / Nigel Vincent

Comic lexicon: searching for 'submerged' Latin from Plautus to Erasmus / Giuseppe Pezzini

Third person possessives from early Latin to late Latin and Romance / Tommaso Mari

The language of a Pompeian tavern: submerged latin? / James Clackson

Ad versus the dative: from early to late latin / James Adams and Wolfgang De Melo

Variation and change in Latin be-periphrases: empirical and methodological considerations / Lieven Danckaert

Analytic passives and deponents in classical and later Latin / Philip Burton

On the use of habeo and the perfect participle in earlier and later Latin / Gerd Haverling

Expressions of time in early and late Latin: the case of temporal habet / Stelios Panayotakis

Quid ago? quid facimus? 'deliberative' indicative questions from early to late Latin / Anna Chahoud

On coepi/incipio + infinitive: some new remarks / Giovanbattista Galdi

Infinitives with verbs of motion from Latin to Romance / James Adams and Nigel Vincent

Causatives in Latin and Romance / Nigel Vincent

The development of the comparative in Latin texts / Brigitte Bauer

Analytic and synthetic forms of the comparative and superlative from early to late Latin / Robert Maltby

Left-detached constructions from early to late Latin (nominatiuus pendens and attractio inuersa) / Hilla Halla-Aho

Six notes on Latin correlatives / Philomen Probert and Eleanor Dickey

Epilogue: some patterns of change / James Adams.

Notes:

"The chapters in this volume derive for the most part from papers given at a workshop held at The University of Manchester on 12-13 May 2014 with the title 'Early Latin and late Latin/Romance: continuity and innovation'. Our guiding idea was to explore the traditional view that there are connections between early and late Latin which, so to speak, go underground during the classical period; hence the term 'submerged' Latin which occurs in a number of the chapters that follow."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-458) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107132252

1107132258

OCLC:

946031767

Publisher Number:

99970019386