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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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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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Latin Letter Collections before Late Antiquity

2016
This chapter considers the variety of Latin letter collections that the late antique reader would have inherited. These range from letters by scholars, poets, statesmen, philosophers, orators, military officials, and Christian leaders. The chapter also considers how these letter collections were formed and circulated among late antique readers.
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Some Emendations in Late Latin Texts

The Classical Quarterly, 1941
For the senseless inira some manuscripts have inire or in arva, and the latter stands in the text of Baehrens (Poetae Latini Minores, v, 1883, p. 67). The attempts at emendation may be divided into two groups, those altering only inira and those tampering with ibat as well. I pass over the latter group, as Robinson Ellis, in his commentary, p. 125, has
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Non-promotional objects in Late Latin

Verbum, 1999
Dans ce travail, on cherche à expliquer la présence des accusatifs gouvernés par les verbes passifs en latin tardif. Les données linguistiques montrent que ce phénomène est présent dans des phrases présentatives ou même dans des phrases avec le subjonctif dont le sens est “il est possible de faire, donner, etc. ; il est nécessaire de faire, donner, etc.
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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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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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Syllable Quantity in Late Latin Clausulae

Phoenix, 1986
IN 1960 SILVIA JANNACCONE WARNED that "le clausole di Ammiano ... da sole non permettono deduzioni di ordine fonetico e morfologico scientificamente soddisfacenti. "' In 1977 Devine and Stephens concurred for late Latin clausulae in general as regards the hypotheses of Harmon and Hagendahl concerning qu.2 The statistically controlled demonstration by ...
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Coming Late to Latin

2022
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