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This paper aims to shed fresh light on the Togata. By analysing the extant fragments, I will investigate if and in what sense it may be defined as a ‘Roman’ literary genre. I will focus on its ‘Roman-ness’, and I will highlight that it is a complex concept, without the ‘nationalistic’ connotations that one normally gives to the notion. I will demonstrate that the Togata is ‘Roman’ because it betrayed an attempt at creating a genre distinguished from the Palliata, and it had a widespread ‘Roman’ patina, with settings, names, and stereotypes which one would not find in other contemporary genres, in particular the Palliata. At the same time, I will also reflect on the fact that the Togata was a multifarious genre, with Latin, Italic, and Greek elements, and I will show that this was, paradoxically, another aspect of its ‘Roman-ness’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dieser Aufsatz behandelt eine Reihe von Problemen, die in der vermutlich keltischen Onomastik auf venetischen Inschriften auftreten. In diesem Zusammenhang werden hier neben der eigentlichen etymologischen Analyse eine Reihe von Fragen bezüglich des Verlusts von /p/ im Keltischen, des frühkeltischen Akzents, Anlautgruppen, Wortstellung, Schemata der Bildung komponierter Nomina agentis, Fehlwahrnehmungen oder unerwarteter phonemischer Interpretationen fremder Formen durch einheimische Schreiber sowie areallinguistischer Phänomene wie des Verlusts von intervokalischem -u̯- und -s- behandelt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews approaches to what is known as the septimus casus from Varro and Quintilian to the late grammarians. It emphasizes the different points of view adopted to describe the seventh case in the history of Latin grammar, and suggests that some descriptions have arisen from simple misinterpretations of earlier sources. The paper confirms that Varro may have had a concept of a seventh case. Interestingly, an unnoticed connection has been detected between the earliest approaches and those in Servius's commentaries on Vergil, where the opinion differs greatly from those in the artes grammaticae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of 'renewal' is widely used in the literature on morphosyntactic change, but hardly ever theorized. Here we scrutinize the viability of this concept theoretically as well as empirically, revisiting in detail the most frequently cited case of renewal, namely the resemblance between the Latin and French synthetic futures. Phenomena accounted for in terms of renewal can also be accounted for in terms of grammaticalization theory.We argue that there is no need and no empirical support for renewal as its own type of change alongside grammaticalization. However, grammaticalization theory so far has neglected to properly account for influences of the existing system on ongoing grammaticalization processes. As an initial approximation of this vast field of study, we propose several domains where we believe that system influences on grammaticalization are operative. On the one hand, this involves making more precise the source determination hypothesis as developed in work by Joan Bybee and colleagues. On the other, it comprises interactions between constructions in paradigm formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Italic Iis a practice-based collaboration between writer-artist Emma Cocker and interdisciplinary artist Clare Thornton that explores the different states of potential made possible through purposefully surrendering to the event of a repeated fall. Parallel to capturing the event of a repeated fall through performance and its documents, our collaborative activity has involved the production of a textual lexicon for reflecting on the different episodes within falling, generated through the ‘free-fall’ of conversational exchange. Central to our enquiry has been the production of an artists’ publication (of the same title as the project), through which an attempt is made to capture and communicate the event of falling visually and linguistically. This article presents a reworked version ofThe Italic I, as a central point of leverage and departure against which to elaborate upon the conceptualisation, construction and potential application of this publication as a propositional training or exercise device. Less a step-by-step manual for instructing another on how to fall, the publicationThe Italic Iis proposed as a training spur or prompt for developing the capacity to operate against expectation, for cultivating a wilfully non-corrective tendency in thought, speech and action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin, a short vowel followed by a voiced plosive undergoes lengthening in the past participle (Lachmann's law). Many of these ppp. show a nasal segment inherited from the present or perfect stem. In a few ppp. moving from a dental stem, such as pēnsus, spōnsus etc., such a spreading provides the condition for the formation of the cluster -ns- (< *-nd-þ-to). By observing the supposed omission of -n- in some of these verbal forms (e.g.: frēsus vs. frĕndo), regardless of the effective status of the process, as opposed to its retention in other ones (e.g.: pēnsus vs. pĕndeo/pĕndo), Latin speakers could have hypothesized that all ppp. forms of this group were originally provided with -n-, see e.g. frēsus< *frĕnsus, with loss of -n- and compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. The 'NS-lengthening' rule might represent an early trigger of the vowel lengthening described by Lachmann. Such a lengthening analogically spread to other ppp., according to a connectionist lexical process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sabellian branch of the Italic languages of Indo-European comprises Oscan, Umbrian, South Picene and a number of smaller varieties. This paper analyses the current model for subgrouping these languages and gives detailed consideration to a number of phonological and morphological isoglosses. The publication of a new corpus of the Sabellian inscriptions allows a better understanding of the relative chronology for language change in the Sabellian branch, and this leads to a new perspective on the interrelations between the Sabellian languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Italic languages show a number of cases of vowel reduction and deletion. When working on the actual data, it is crucial to understand the role that accent played in such phonological changes. As for the qualitative nature of Italic accent, recent typological studies suggest that the Italic accent most likely had a dominant stress nature, rather than pitch nature, in the period when vowel reduction and deletion took place. The fact that these changes occurred primarily in non-initial syllables strongly supports the hypothesis that initial syllables were consistently stressed at some point in the history of Italic. Objections to this theory should thus be rejected as groundless. The systematic difference between the initial-stress rule of Pre-Literary Latin and the Penultimate Law of Literary Latin can also be explained within a metrical framework. On the other hand, although it is not immediately clear whether Sabellic acquired an accentual system like that of Literary Latin, the long-vowel notations in Oscan and Umbrian seem to point to the retention of the older system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article reconsiders one of the best-known examples of Oscan epigraphy — the inscription which commemorates the testament of Vibius Adiranus to the vereiia- of Pompeii. It has been widely accepted that this inscription is a first-century A.D. copy of a second-century B.C. original, and is therefore the latest extant example of Oscan in a formal public inscription. This is challenged here with an analysis of both the linguistic detail and archaeological context, and it is shown that this inscription itself is more likely to be the original. The re-dating suggested here has implications for our understanding of language use at Pompeii; it also facilitates more accurate estimates of when the deaths of the Italic languages took place. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The variety of Sicilian spoken in Pantelleria has developed a progressive construction which involves pronominal subject clitics. This is striking in many respects. Firstly, on a Romance scale, subject clitics are usually regarded as characteristic for varieties spoken north of Florence. Secondly, in none of the central Romance dialects where subject clitics are known to occur do these convey progressive meaning. The latter seems to be unusual on a larger scale too, as none of the strategies for progressive marking reported in the relevant literature on linguistic typology seems to be directly comparable with the one displayed by Pantiscu. Besides, the results of the present study have some consequences for grammaticalization theory, as they suggest that recent revisions of Hopper & Traugott's 'cline of grammaticalization' are not on the right track and that the cline originally proposed should rather be revised so as to include the distinction between syntactic and phonological cliticization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Latin constructions of the type magna cum laude "with great praise" have traditionally been equated structurally and historically with univerbated phrases of the type mecum "with me" and further with postpositional constructions in Sabellic like Umbrian nertru-co persi "at the left foot." Moreover, all three have been adduced as archaic survivals of postpositional syntax in Italic. A detailed investigation of both the synchrony and diachrony of these constructions, however, reveals that these conclusions are for the most part incorrect and that our historical account of the evolution of adpositional syntax in both branches of Italic must be revised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article, Originea românilor - the corner stone of the Iasi school of linguistics, is a concise presentation of both the scientific and moral virtues of the scholar who laid the foundations of the Iasi school of linguistics and his capital work, Originea românilor [The Origin of the Romanians], currently under revision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses changes in the typology of the Latin language from its classical variant to its modern descendents. It includes an in-depth analysis of how the grammaticalization of motion-based periphrastic constructions can be used as a criterion for classifying the Romance languages, as well as a discussion on the value of the diachronic dimension of the Romance languages that takes into account its starting, intermediate and final stages. Also cited are the different issues' implications for the Romance languages and other languages.

Latin has a so-called sigmatic future faxō‘I shall make’. Scholars are divided as to the origins and antiquity of faxō; some believe it to go back to desideratives, others to aorists, and some argue that the formation arose within Latin, others that it can be traced back to Proto-Italic. Closely connected with these problems are the questions whether Venetic is an Italic language and whether its past (‘aorist’) tense vha.g.s.to‘he made’ is related to faxō. I intend to show that faxō is based on inherited s-aorists, not on desideratives, that the formation arose late, within Latin itself rather than within Proto-Italic, and that there was never a past indicative beside it. Because of the last two reasons, vha.g.s.to must be independent of faxō. Venetic may still be an Italic language, but the form vha.g.s.to cannot be used as an argument in favour of such a connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on how the popularity of the Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling, has allowed teachers to interest students in the roots of words. According to the article, part of Rowling's international success is due to her use of Latin-based words. Teachers can use these words as a springboard for study of other English words based on the same roots. The authors argue that making connections between Latin origins and modern English words is important to building vocabulary. The article presents several examples of student assignments related to roots of words.

The paper presents the totality of nominal compounds attested in the Sabellic languages. It intends to evaluate any lexical correspondences between Sabellic and Latin and to classify the types of composition as productive or rather marginal respectively. Common innovations in the system of nominal composition contribute to the arguments in favour of a linguistic unity of Proto–Italic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

English has two main sources for words: German and Latin. Distinct from each other, they have polarized our language into high diction and low (‘diglossia’). Latinate words denote the intellectual world; Germanic words, the physical. Latinate words are indicators of status and education. Austen painted and delineated her characters by giving their speeches different densities of Latinate words. Higher densities of Latinate words sometimes indicate intelligence and moral seriousness, at other times, they expose a character's formality or hypocrisy. Lower densities indicate lesser intelligence or, in the case of sailors, humble birth. The characters whose densities are very close to the narrator are Austen's four great heroines, Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, and Anne Elliot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the books by Thomas Linacre which focus on the construction of north-European Latin grammars during the 16th century. The author stresses that the terms used by Linacre in expressing Latin grammar greatly differs from other humanist grammarians. They include etymology, figures of speech, nominals, word construction and word description. It states that Linacre's grammars address advanced students with the introduction of new terminology and the use of traditional terms. Linacre is known for his contributions in enhancing Latin philology.

Discusses the multivariate analysis of Latin elegiac verse. Effectiveness of multivariate analyses in offering the possibility of distinguishing the various independent components of style which contrast one sample of text with another; Attributes of the elegiac verse; Analysis of the first, second and third latent vectors.

The article discusses methods for teaching the Latin language. Steps of the lessons are outlined. It emphasizes the need to practice translating simple connected words as supplementary to various steps of the course.