Adams J.N., Nigel V. (Eds.) Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change?

Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xx, 470 p. — ISBN 1-107-13225-8, 978-1-107-13225-2.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 Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they be superficial, reflecting different phenomena at different periods? Most of the chapters, on numerous syntactic and other topics and using different methodologies, have a long chronological range. All attempt to identify patterns of change that might undermine any theory of submerged continuity. The patterns found are summarised in a concluding chapter.
The volume addresses classicists with an interest in any of the different periods of Latin, and Romance linguists.List of contributorsAbbreviations
Supplementary abbreviationsContinuity and change from Latin to Romance
Nigel Vincent
Comic lexicon: searching for ‘submerged’ Latin from Plautus to Erasmus
Giuseppe Pezzini
Third person possessives from early Latin to late Latin and Romance
Tommaso Mari
The language of a Pompeian tavern: submerged Latin?
James Clackson
Ad versus the dative: from early to late Latin
James Adams and Wolfgang de Melo
Variation and change in Latin BE-periphrases: empirical and methodological considerations
Lieven Danckaert
Analytic passives and deponents in classical and later Latin
Philip Burton
On the use of habeo and the perfect participle in earlier and in later Latin
Gerd V.M. Haverling
Expressions of time in early and late Latin: the case of temporal habet
Stelios Panayotakis
Quid ago? Quid facimus? ‘Deliberative’ indicative questions from early to late Latin
Anna Chahoud
On coepi/incipio + infinitive: some new remarks
Giovanbattista Galdi
Infi nitives with verbs of motion from Latin to Romance
James Adams and Nigel Vincent
Causatives in Latin and Romance
Nigel Vincent
The development of the comparative in Latin texts
Brigitte L.M. Bauer
Analytic and synthetic forms of the comparative and superlative from early to late Latin
Robert Maltby
Left-detached constructions from early to late Latin: (nominatiuus pendens and attractio inuersa)
Hilla Halla-aho
Six notes on Latin correlatives
Philomen Probert and Eleanor Dickey
Epilogue: some patterns of change
James AdamsBibliography
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