The early Latin verb system : archaic forms in Plautus, Terence, and beyond / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo de, 1976-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

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

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 413 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

Abbreviations and Editions

1. Introduction: An Archaic Verb System?

The Regular Forms

The Extra-Paradigmatic Types in Archaic Latin

The Diachronic Side

Data and Methodology

PART I. FOUR PROBLEMS IN THE LATIN VERB SYSTEM

Introduction to Part I

2. Simple Future and Future Perfect in Archaic Latin

Possible Contrasts between Simple Future and Future Perfect

The Regular Future Forms in Three Plays

Conclusions

3. The Sequence of Tenses in Archaic Latin

The Sequence Rules in More Detail

Subordinate Clauses with Independent Subjunctives

Some Statistics

4. Prohibitions with f&amp

#275

cer&amp

#299

s and faci&amp

#257

s in Archaic Latin

Prohibitions with n&amp

(n&amp

ue), minim&amp

, n&amp

m&amp

#333

, neque (nec), nihil, and n&amp

#363

llus

Prohibitions with Forms of cau&amp

re

5. Infinitivals with Future Meaning in Archaic Latin

Telicity

The Subject of the Infinitive

The Infinitive dare

The Voice of the Infinitive

Subject Accusatives

Register Differences

The Influence of the Governing Verb

Diachronic Differences

PART II. THE EXTRA-PARADIGMATIC VERB FORMS: A SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS

Introduction to Part II

6. The Sigmatic Future in Archaic Latin

The Sigmatic Forms in Subordinate Clauses

The Sigmatic Forms in Main Clauses

A Rationale for the Distribution of the Sigmatic Indicative Forms?

7. The Sigmatic Subjunctive in Archaic Latin

Frequency and Productivity

Register

Combination with Other Tenses, Time Reference, and Other Features

Distribution Patterns

Excursus: The Rhotacized Forms i&amp

#365

uerint, mon&amp

#283

rint, and s&amp

#299.

rint

8. The Sigmatic Infinitives

Productivity and Register

Time Reference and Function

9. The Type duim in Archaic Latin

Tense, Aspect, and Other Features

Patterns of Distribution

An Addendum: The Indicative Forms in Archaic Latin

10. The Type attig&amp

Temporal Reference and Special Features

Distribution over Clause Types

A Further Addendum: Extra-Paradigmatic Indicatives?

PART III. THE EXTRA-PARADIGMATIC VERB FORMS: A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS

Introduction to Part III

11. Some Problems of Reconstruction

Aorists or Desideratives?

The Origin of the -ss- in am&amp

ssint

Ancient and Recent Sigmatic Forms

Some Problems Concerning duim and dem

Summary

12. Extra-Paradigmatic Forms in Classical and Later Latin

The Sigmatic Indicatives and Subjunctives

Rhotacized Forms and Sigmatic Infinitives

The &amp

-Subjunctives and Their Corresponding Indicatives

The Extra-Paradigmatic &amp

-Subjunctives

PART IV. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS

References

Index of Passages

A

C

D

E

F

H

J

L

M

N

O

P

Q

S

T

V

Index of Words

Latin

English

Faliscan

French

German

Gothic

Greek

Hernican

Indo-European and Other Reconstructed Forms

Italian

Lithuanian

Ngiyampaa

Old Irish

Oscan

Sanskrit

Spanish

Umbrian

Venetic

General Index

B

G

I

R

U

W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-390) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191526138

0191526134

OCLC:

437096242