Terence and the Verb 'to Be' in Latin"Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This phenomenon is largely unknown since classical texts have undergone a long process of transmission over the centuries, which has altered or deleted its traces. Although they are often neglected by scholars and puzzling to students, the use of contracted forms is shown to be widespread and significant. These forms expose the clitic nature of esse, which also explains other properties of the verb, including its participation in a prosodic simplification with a host ending in -s (sigmatic ecthlipsis), a phenomenon which is also discussed in the volume. After an introduction on methodology, the volume discusses the linguistic significance of such phenomena, focusing in particular on analysis of their behaviour in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence.0Combining traditional scholarship with the use of digital resources, the volume explores the orthographic, phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of the verb esse, revealing that cliticization is a key feature of the verb 'to be' in Latin, and that contractions deserve a place within its paradigm."-- dust jacket |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Contraction of esse Collection of Evidence | 27 |
Contraction of esse Phonological Analysis and Historical Appraisal | 99 |
Analysis of Contracted Forms in Terence | 141 |
Sigmatic Ecthlipsis and Cliticization of esse | 193 |
Conclusions | 235 |
Appendix | 249 |
Reference List | 317 |
| 333 | |
| 338 | |
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adjective analysis anceps Appendix archaic atqu(e attested C(ai C(aius caesura Catullus cett clause clitic codd considered consonant context contracted forms contracted spellings copula e)st ég(o égó elidible elision Ennius ess(e est/es evidence for contracted existential f(ilius factast factors Grattius haec Haut heavy element host word iambic iaº instances L(ucius linguistic Lucretius M(arci manuscripts metre metrical mihi monosyllabic monosyllable Moreover n(am néqué noun nunc omission of final opus opust Palestrina participle pâter pattern phenomenon phonological Plautus Plautus and Terence predicate prodelision pronunciation prosodic pyrrhic qu(am quae quam quid quod resolved element Ribbeck Roma s(um sandhi sátis scanned scansion sequence sigmatic ecthlipsis similest siné speech spelt stylistic syllable ending syntactic Table tempus texts tibi transmitted trº trochaic uncontracted univerbation Velius Longus verb vowel word ending
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| Title | Terence and the Verb 'to Be' in Latin Oxford classical monographs Titolo collana |
| Author | Giuseppe Pezzini |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2015 |
| ISBN | 019873624X, 9780198736240 |
| Length | 355 pages |
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