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Lingua Patrum, vol. 8
The Latin of the Grammarians
Reflections about Language in the Roman World
Rolando Ferri, Anna Zago (eds)
- Pages: 453 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Illustrations:3 b/w
- Language(s):Italian, English, French
- Publication Year:2016
- € 205,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-56627-6
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What Roman grammarians can tell us about their language from a modern linguistic perspective
Review(s)
« Doté d’une bibliographie finale ainsi que d’un index très détaillé des passages et des sujets, ce volume, très soigné, constitue incontestablement un ouvrage de référence. Il contient quantité d’idées neuves qui devraient conduire à des développements ultérieurs. » (Bruno Rochette, in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2016.10.48)
“Dieser Sammelband bietet zweifellos viele neue Erkenntnisse und Anregungen. Zugleich ist es den Herausgebern gelungen, trotz der Themenvielfalt eine gewisse inhaltliche Kohärenz herzustellen (…)” (Lorenzo di Maggio, in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 52/3, 2017, p. 484)
“The studies collected in this volume deserve special praise for bridging the gap between linguistic historiography and historical linguistics, for their fine-grained analysis and thorough contextualization of the source material, for their intensive integration of textual criticism in grammaticographical historiography, and for the intelligent reliance on present-day linguistic theories (...)” (Tim Denecker, in Gnomon, 90, 2018, p. 470)
BIO
Rolando Ferri is Professor of Latin at the University of Pisa. He has worked on Horace and Senecan tragedy, Vulgar and Spoken Latin, Politeness theory and Pragmatics of ancient languages, and bilingual glossaries.
Anna Zago is Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Pisa. She has published on Apuleius and the grammarian Pompeius Maurus and is preparing a new edition of Pompeius’s Commentum Donati, book III, with a commentary.
Summary
What can Roman grammarians tell us about their language from a modern linguistic perspective? This book brings together scholars interested in Roman grammarians from a variety of areas, from manuscript research to modern sociolinguistics and the history of Latin. Their combined effort tries to elicit a wide-ranging, comparative picture of cutting edge research on Roman grammar, with special focus on the Roman grammarians' perception of linguistic change in Latin, sociopragmatic variation, and linguistic interference from Greek. Grammarians were not simply transmitters of rules: they also spoke the language of their times and were alert to social and pragmatic variations of usage, and at the same time reflected the formation of new Latin standards different from the language of the syllabus authors (Pompeius, Consentius, Medieval authors of artes grammaticae).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Anna Chahoud, Varro’s Latin and Varro on Latin
Wolfgang D. C. de Melo, What is the Middle Declension in Varro, De lingua Latina 10, 71? A New Interpretation of an Old Emendation
Federico Biddau, Le fonti letterarie di interesse ortografico e il loro valore
Lorenzo Filipponio, Tra musica e grammatica: lo statuto della fonetica nella grammaticografia classica
Giovanna Marotta, Syllabae, syllabarum divisio et communes syllabae. Ambiguità prosodica tra fonologia e metrica nei grammatici latini
Javier Uría, Nomen an adverbium? Latin Grammarians on the Adverb
Alessandro Garcea, Charisius’ Schemata dianoias: A Unicum Between Grammar, Rhetoric, and Literature
Ernesto Stagni, Carisio e Isidoro interpolato, i capitoli delle figure: novità sulla tradizione manoscritta
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Tra declinationes verborum ed Hermeneumata: le flessioni verbali greco-latine su papiro
Eleanor Dickey, The Authorship of the Greek Version of Dositheus’ Grammar and What It Tells Us About the Grammar’s Original Use
Rolando Ferri, An Ancient Grammarian’s View of How the Spoken Language Works: Pragmalinguistic Observations in Donatus’ Commentum Terentii
Tommaso Mari, I metaplasmi in Consenzio
Anna Zago, Iotacism in the Latin Grammarians
Frédérique Biville, Polyphonie énonciative chez Priscien
Michela Rosellini, Note sul latino di Prisciano: contenuti didattici e scrittura
Luigi Munzi, Le artes grammaticae fra latino, romanzo e altotedesco
