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Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry

2017
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Early and Late Latin

2016
This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to 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 in ...
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A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin

2002
Sociophilology combines traditional detailed philological expertise with the broader insights of modern sociolinguistics. Late Latin is the native language, both spoken and written, of the former Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages, sometimes also regarded as being 'Early Romance'.
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The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

2017
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the ...
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Late Latin Grammars in the Early Middle Ages

Historiographia Linguistica, 1986
Summary The popularity, and hence survival, of certain of the grammars of late Antiquity in the early Middle Ages can to a large extent be described in typological terms. The two principal ancient genres, the Schulgrammatik and the regulae type, were joined in the fifth century by a new genre, the grammatical commentary.
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Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

Transactions of the Philological Society, 1999
This paper illustrates the relevance of the Unaccusative Hypothesis for a well‐known area of Late Latin/early Romance syntax, the proliferation of pleonastic reflexives with intransitive verbs denoting change of state/location, states, verba dicendi and sentiendi.
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Passive auxiliaries in Late Latin

2005
Discussion of the rise of passive verbal periphrases in Late Latin, in the light of the changes taking place in the encoding of voice distinctions. Investigation of the new strategies pressed into use for the encoding of voice and aspect in the transition to Romance.
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Aspects of Impersonal Constructions in Late Latin

1997
Fac. Letteren, Universität Heidelberg, Duitsland : [s.n.]
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The Interpretation of Correctness in Late Latin Texts

Language, 1961
Whatever our interpretation of the exact nature of the language of Latin documents and inscriptions of the centuries preceding the emergence of written Romance may be, there seems little doubt that the deviations from Classical or standard Latin which are found in these written materials are due to interference coming from the speech of their writers ...
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