Early Latin : constructs, diversity, reception / edited by J. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini, with the assistance of Charlie Kerrigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Chahoud, Anna, editor.

Pezzini, Giuseppe, 1984- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Latin philology.

Genre:

Essays

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxi, 656 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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. Defines linguistic features of different literary genres, and addresses problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : What is early Latin? / Giuseppe Pezzini and Anna Chahoud

Part I : General (Morphology, Syntax, Lexicon and Metre). Alphabet, epigraphy, and literacy in central Italy in the 7th /5th c. BC / Rex Wallace

Identifying Latin in early inscriptions / Simona Marchesini

The Egadi Rostra, a linguistic analysis / Wolfgang D. C. de Melo

Morphology and syntax in early Latin / Wolfgang D. C. de Melo

Early Latin metre / Wolfgang D. C. de Melo and Giuseppe Pezzini

Greek Loanwords in early Latin / James Clackson

Latin edepol 'by Pollux': background of a Latin aduerbium iuratiuum / Brent Vine

Indirect questions in early Latin / Peter Barrios-Lech

Ecquis in early Latin: aspects of questions / Colette Bodelot

Part II : Authors and Genres. Support verb constructions in Plautus and Terence / José Miguel Baños

Early Latin prayers and aspects of coordination / James Adams and Veronika Nikitina

'Early Latin' lexicon in Terence (and Plautus) / Giuseppe Pezzini

Early Latin and the fragments of Atellana Comedy / Costas Panayotakis

A comparison of the language of comedy and tragedy in early Latin drama / Robert Maltby

The language of early Latin epic / Sander Goldberg

How 'early Latin' is Lucilius? / Anna Chahoud

Repetition in the fragmentary orators: from Cato to C. Gracchus / Christa Gray

Greek influences on Cato's Latin / Neil O'Sullivan

Some syntactic features of Latin legal texts / Olga Spevak

Part III : Reception. Lucretius and early Latin / Barnaby Taylor

Cicero and early dramatic Latin / Gesine Manuwald

Early Latin texts in Livy / John Briscoe

Pliny rewrites Cato / Cynthia Damon

Gellius' appreciation and understanding of early Latin / Leofranc Holford-Strevens

Views on early Latin in grammatical texts / Alessandro Garcea

Nonius Marcellus and the shape of early Latin / Jarrett Welsh

Early Latin to Neo-Latin : Festus and Scaliger / Anna Chahoud

Conclusions : Early Latin as a Concept / James Adams

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108476584

1108476589

OCLC:

1322046327