Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin
Pezzini, GiuseppeAuthor
This is an in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and its contracted form, with a particular focus on its appearance in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence.
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This is an in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and its contracted form, with a particular focus on its appearance in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence.
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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 premisse : final -s in Latin -- Second premise : the metre of Roman comedy -- Sigmatic echlipsis : editors' choice -- Terence : the metrical evidence -- Linguistic observations -- Epilogue : sigmatic, eechtlipsis 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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