Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics

Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics
Author: Concepción Cabrillana
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2024-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110722119

These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de Compostela (2022). They cover essential topics in Latin linguistics from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The first volume includes papers on Latin Syntax and Semantics, Latin Syntax and Pragmatics, Greek-Latin language, and Digital Linguistics. The contributions report on the latest research into very relevant issues in specific areas such as definiteness, casual syntax, sentence structure, word order, etc.; in addition, the most recent methodological advances using a variety of databases, a key tool in contemporary research, are presented. The second volume includes papers on Semantics and Lexicography, Etymology, Discourse strategies, and a special section devoted to the analysis of Conversation and Dialogue. The contributions report on the latest research into highly relevant issues in specific areas such as nominal and adjectival lexicology from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspectives, the use of Greek words as a vehicle for the expression of philosophical concepts, the choice and rendering of various linguistic strategies in direct and indirect discourse, etc. A particularly innovative section deals with various aspects of conversational language in a number of text types, as well as the use of different devices that contribute to the expression of (im)politeness by participants in the speech act. A knowledge of the work collected in these volumes is essential for all those involved in research in the field of Latin linguistics.

Experiential Constructions in Latin

Experiential Constructions in Latin
Author: Chiara Fedriani
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004257837

This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.

Jesus Caesar

Jesus Caesar
Author: Laura J. Hunt
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3161575261

Back cover: In this work, Laura J. Hunt notes the evidence of local interactions with Rome in important first-century CE cities. The resulting reading of the Johannine trial narrative depicts Jesus in the words and images of a Caesar, and Pilate negotiating his power over "the Jews" and his vulnerabilty before Caesar.

The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects

The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects
Author: Ilja A. Serzant
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027271305

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.

From Case to Adposition

From Case to Adposition
Author: Vít Bubeník
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027247951

In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand years of documentation in all twelve language families of the Indo-European phylum, noting the resemblances between the structure of the original IE case system and the systemic oppositions to be found in the sets of adpositions that replaced it. Quite apart from its theoretical analyses and proposals which in themselves amount to a new look at many traditional problems, this study has a value in the collected store of information on cases, and on adpositions and their usage. There is also a considerable store of etymological information that is relevant to the description of the systemic development.

Theory and Description in Latin Linguistics

Theory and Description in Latin Linguistics
Author: M. Bolkestein
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900440905X

With contributions by R. Amacker, C. Bodelot, P. Carvalho, W. Dressler, G. Haverlin, R. Maltby

Form and Function in Roman Oratory

Form and Function in Roman Oratory
Author: D. H. Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521768950

This book explores the interplay of form and function in both real and fictional oratory at Rome.

Latinitatis rationes

Latinitatis rationes
Author: Paolo Poccetti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 878
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110431939

This volume assembles 50 contributions presented at the XVII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: phonetics, syntax, etymology and semantics, pragmatics and textual analysis. It is a useful resource for the study of comparative and general linguistics, not only for linguists but also for scholars of classical philology.

Classical Philology and Linguistics

Classical Philology and Linguistics
Author: Georgios K. Giannakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3111273008

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.