Varietate delectamur: Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin

The focus of the Latin Vulgaire – Latin Tardif book series lies on the complex and multifaceted problem of late and so-called vulgar Latin. Specifically, starting out from a wide range of methodological approaches involving all levels of language, the series’ main purpose is to investigate how Classical Latin (i.e. the language used in the period from ca. 100 BC to AD 100 by authors such as Cicero, Horace and Vergil) underwent the changes during the late period (i.e. mainly between the 3rd and the 7th century AD) that resulted in (the early stages of) the Romance languages. To this purpose, three main types of linguistic sources are taken into consideration. First, direct Latin sources, which include for instance texts written by people with a lesser level of literacy (e.g. inscriptions, soldiers’ letters), or by fully literate authors reproducing colloquial language deliberately (e.g. Petronius, Apuleius). Second, indirect Latin sources, which consist of metalinguistic testimonies of ancient authors (mainly, but not exclusively, grammarians) dealing with the language variation typical of their time and region. And third, the Romance idioms themselves: by comparing sources in at least two Romance varieties, one may reconstruct Latin words or forms which were used widely in spoken usage but, for different reasons, are not attested in any extant source.

Preface

Orality and Diastratic Variation
Terence’s language between oratory and vulgar Latin (Gualtiero Calboli)
Les marques d’ouverture du discours direct dans le roman latin (le Satyricon de Pétrone et les Métamorphoses d’Apulée) (Joseph Dalbera)
Motion pseudo-coordination in Plautus’ and Terence’s plays. A corpus-based analysis (Simone Gentile & Carmelina Toscano)

Diaphasic Variation in Non-literary Latin
La geminazione di s- preconsonantica nella koinè scrittoria latino greca. Dati empirici e aspetti teorici (Serena Barchi)
Latin technical legal terminology in Greek papyrus documents. Some examples from late antique and Byzantine Egypt (Alessia Pezzella)
Some evidence on geminatio consonantium between standardisation and variation (Lucia Tamponi)
Phenomena of graphic interference in Latin curse tablets from Africa (Mariarosaria Zinzi)

Christian Latin in Late Antiquity
La perífrasis habeo + infinitivo en el Itinerarium Egeriae (Olga Álvarez Huerta)
Virtus adunationis. Alcuni esempi di innovazione lessicale nel De anima di Cassiodoro (Michele Di Marco)
El uso de ipse y demás formas demostrativas en la Regla de San Benito de Nursia (Alfonso García Leal)
A Spiritual Use of Lat. mens in Gregory the Great’s Homilies on Gospels (Octavian Gordon)
Clausal word order in the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. An emerging V2 grammar? (Kim A. Groothuis)
Morphologies in contact in Bible translations. The nomina agentis in New Testament Latin (Elisabetta Magni)
Motions verbs in the Vulgata. Aspect and deixis in a diachronic and typological perspective (Andrea Nuti)
Nuovi contributi sulla lingua dell’anonimo poema dell’Heptateuchos (i termini anus e odium) (Maria Rosaria Petringa)
Il de con ablativo nelle controuersiae di Ennodio (dict. 21-22) (Amedeo A. Raschieri)
Style matters. Hyperbaton and genre in Augustine of Hippo (Agnes Vendel)
The Greek Loan Word Presbyteri in Vetus Latina and Vulgate Susanna (Vulg. Dan. 13). Reception by Cyprian, Lucifer, and Jerome (Kevin Zilverberg)

Technical Latin in Late Antiquity
Muliebribus uerbis usus sum. The Gynaecia of Mustio and the language of midwives (Micaela Brembilla)
Nomi di mestiere nel glossario latino-greco degli Hermeneumata Celtis (Salvatore Cammisuli)
Offa, ofella, offula. A semantic analysis in Apicius’ De re coquinaria (Marilena De Gregorio)
Ortografia ed evoluzione linguistica nel latino tardo (Paolo De Paolis)
Sobre el acercamiento de mitto a pono en el latín posclásico (María Isabel Jiménez & Chantal Melis)

Diachronic Perspectives on Latin
Alea iacta est. Insights from corpus semantics into the diachrony of the Latin passive (Simon Aerts)
La gran poesía latina y las pequeñas lenguas romances. Algunos ejemplos léxicos del Noroeste hispánico (María Concepción Fernández López)
Classical and Late Latin poetry. Looking for diachronic variation in the grammatical categories distribution (Dominique Longrée & Marc Vandersmissen)
Tracing the semantic change of socio-political terms from Classical to early Medieval Latin with computational methods (Barbara McGillivray & Krzysztof Nowak)
La concordance négative (NC) et la négation explétive (EN) entre renforcement et affaiblissement dans l’évolution du latin aux langues romanes (Anna Orlandini & Paolo Poccetti)

Late Latin Testimonies to Early Romance Innovations
Back vowel mergers in Dalmatian Latin and Dalmatian Romance (Béla Adamik)
Latin varieties and the study of language. Social stratification in language evolution (Brigitte L.M. Bauer)
On problems in the description of the Late Latin verbal system (Gerd V. M. Haverling)
Termes interrogatifs dans le Liber Historiae Francorum. Concordances et discordances avec les Historiae de Grégoire de Tours (Colette Bodelot)
Notes on the Late Latin Accusative Absolute construction (Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Eystein Dahl & Jelena Živojinović)
Il verbo insinuo nelle epistole commendaticiae tardoantiche (Sara Fascione)
Evidence of periphrastic gradation in Late Latin (Lucie Pultrová)
Re-verbs in Late Antiquity (Josine Schrickx)

Early Medieval Latin on the Threshold of Proto-Romance
Tensions « linguistico-communautaires » en Occident dans l’Antiquité (Tardive) et au haut Moyen Âge (résumé) (Marc Van Uytfanghe)
Reconsidering Langobards’ Latinity from a socio-historical viewpoint (Rosanna Sornicola)
Lexicographical notes on Historia Brittonum (Maxime Canin)
Glutinum sermonum. The metaphorical representation of a syntactic function (Paola Cotticelli-Kurras & Francesca Cotugno)
I toponimi nelle carte notarili della Langobardia minor (IX-X secolo). Morfosintassi e proprietà testuali (Elisa D’Argenio & Cesarina Vecchia)
Manifestazioni del neutro nel latino circa romançum dei Regii Neapolitani Archiui Monumenta (sec. X) (Eleonora Delfino)
Variazione lessicale e linguaggio notarile. Qualche esempio dalle carte mediolatine della Campania (IX-XII secolo) (Valentina Ferrari)
Sintassi, semantica e testualità dei pronomi relativi qui e que nelle carte notarili della Langobardia minor (IX secolo) (Paolo Greco)
Norme et style dans les textes narratifs latins du Haut Moyen Âge. Essai de typologie (Sándor Kiss)
Asigmatic non-standard plurals in 8th- and 9th-century Tuscian charters? (Timo Korkiakangas & Tommi Alho)
The syntactic glosses of the Liber Iudicum Popularis (Afra Pujol i Campeny)
Alternanze tematiche, innovazione e polimorfismo. Le testimonianze di alcune raccolte documentarie dell’Italia meridionale (Simona Valente)

Workshop in Celebration of Gualtiero Calboli’s Career
Discontinuité du groupe nominal dans la Vulgate (Bernard Bortolussi)
Aspects of juridical language in Benedict’s Rule (Giovanbattista Galdi)
El origen de tīrō, -ōnis ‘novillo uncido’ y de *tīrāre ‘tirar’. Dos creaciones del habla rústica (Benjamín García-Hernández)
Les constructions infinitives selon la conception de Gualtiero Calboli (Sándor Kiss)
Sur l’interaction entre négation, verbes modaux et modalités (Anna Orlandini & Paolo Poccetti)
Ille in the Latin Gospel of John. Demonstratives and articles in translation (Silvia Pieroni)
On the Scope of Theticity in Latin (Hannah Rosén)

Workshop on Inscriptions and tabellae defixionum
Shaping shapes. Sicilicus and other diacritics in Latin epigraphy (Lucia Tamponi & Serena Barchi)
Exorcisms, oaths, and invocations in Greek and Latin curse tablets, funerary inscriptions, and amulets. Some preliminary results (Juraj Franek, Daniela Urbanová & Ulrike Ehmig)
Normativity. Editing Latin inscriptions (Marietta Horster, Katharina Kagerer & Christine Wulf)