Past participles from Latin to Romance
By: Richard Laurent.
Series: University of California publications in linguistics,; v. 133
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Romance languages -- Participle.; Latin language -- Participle.; Latin language -- Influence on Romance.
First sentence: Since the time of the Techne Grammatike ascribed to Dionysius Thrax (ca. 100 BCE), participles have been acknowledged in the West as a part of speechthat shares features of verbs and nouns.
Description: In this morphological study, Laurent considers which types of past partciples current in Classical Latin survived or disappeared, expanded or contracted during the 1500 years since the fall of Rome, in a range of Romance languages and dialects reaching from Moldavian to Portuguese.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-465) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: 0
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Latin Past Participles, Inherited and Innovated
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: Reshaping of Verb Paradigms in Late Latin and Proto-Romance
pagenum: 41; label: 3
title: Past Participles in Eastern Romance
pagenum: 107; label: 4
title: Past Participles in Western Romance
pagenum: 205; label: 5
title: Synopsis of Data
pagenum: 324; label: 6
title: Theoretical Implications
pagenum: 351; label: Appendixes
title: 1, 2, 3
pagenum: 367; label: References
pagenum: 443; label: Index Verborum
pagenum: 467