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Cover 1 Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Preface 8 Contents 12 A note on cross-references 15 List of Boxes and Tables 16 Boxes 16 Tables 16 I: Introduction 20 1. OVERTURE: LINGUISTIC PUZZLES 20 2. AIMS AND FINDINGS 25 2.1 ‘Real’ Latin 25 2.2 Contractions in Latin 28 2.3 Omission of Final -s 30 2.4 Implications 32 3. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 33 3.1 Variant Forms 33 3.2 Speech and Spelling 34 3.3 Sociolects, Registers, Genres 36 3.4 Diachronic Factors 37 3.5 Linguistic ‘Intertextuality’ 38 3.6 Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors: Contracted Forms 39 3.7 The Latin Linguist 40 4. ‘TO BE’ IN LATIN: A (SHORT) HISTORY 41 5. STATISTICS 43 II: Contraction of esse: Collection of Evidence 46 1. INTRODUCTION 46 2. PHONOLOGICAL PATTERNS 49 3. THE EVIDENCE 55 3.1 Direct Transmission in Manuscripts 56 3.1.1 Collection of Data 56 3.1.2 A Particular Type of Reading 69 3.2 Metre 71 3.3 Indirect Transmission in Manuscripts 75 3.4 Inscriptions 84 3.4.1 Collection of Data 84 3.4.2 Some General Remarks 91 3.5 Grammarians 94 3.5.1 Marius Victorinus 94 3.5.2 Consentius 99 3.5.3 Velius Longus 102 3.6 Sabellian Languages 104 3.7 Other Types of Evidence 106 3.8 The Second Person Form

Author

GIUSEPPE PEZZINI

Published

2015

Language

EN