Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin / Giuseppe Pezzini.
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Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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xvii, 355 pages : charts ; 23 cm.
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unmediated
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Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Overture linguistic puzzles -- Aims and findings -- Methodological issues -- 'To be' in Latin : a (short) history -- Statistics -- Contraction of esse : collection of evidence. Phonological patterns -- The evidence -- Contraction of esse : phonological analysis and historical appraisal. Phonological discussion -- Historical appraisal of contracted forms -- Analysis of contracted forms in Terence. The pattern -ŭs + (e)stl(e)s -- Syntax and word order -- Contractions after -V and -Vm -- Limits of contraction -- Sigmatic ecthlipsis and cliticization of esse. First premise : final -s in Latin -- Second premise : the metre of Roman comedy -- Sigmatic ecthlipsis : editors' choice -- Terence : the metrical evidence -- Linguistic observations -- Epilogue : sigmatic ecthlipsis in Plautus -- Conclusions. Contracted spellings of est/es -- Contraction of esse as speech phenomenon -- Prosodic reduction in -s + sum/sim/sit -- Cliticization of esse -- The semantics of esse -- The syntactic nature of esse -- Word order : the position of esse -- Final remarks.
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019873624X hardback
9780198736240 hardback
4 WEEK
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