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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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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.
Michela Cennamo, CENNAMO, MICHELA
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From deceit to pain: Late Latin dolus and the interplay between semantics and analogy

Journal of Latin Linguistics, 2023
In Late Latin, dolus ‘deceit’ expanded its semantic scope and took on the meanings of dolor ‘pain, suffering, grief, anguish’. This article lays out the literary and epigraphic attestations for dolus ‘suffering’ in full and discusses the difficulties in ...
Annie C Burman
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Aspects of Impersonal Constructions in Late Latin

, 1997
Fac. Letteren, Universität Heidelberg, Duitsland : [s.n.]
Bauer, B.L.M.
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Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry

2017
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Teaching ‘correct’ Latin in late antique Rome

Language and History, 2019
Roman grammatici taught formal registers of Latin language through reading Latin poets. By late antiquity, there was an ever widening gap between ‘correct’ formal Latin and the language which students used in daily contexts.
Frances Foster
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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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