Summary
Varrò in De lingua latina was the first to draw a distinction between authentic Latin words (verbanostra) and lexical elements of foreign origin (verba peregrina). The aim of this paper is to examine the different attitudes of Roman authors and grammarians towards foreign elements in general. Specific attention is paid to the various arguments against lexical borrowing (lack of comprehensibility, offence to Latinitas, corruption of style by barbarisms, etc.) as well as to the role of grecisms in Latin linguistic thought Among the factors that have brought about a gradual change from interdiction to integration, five are discussed more closely: (1) the poetic licence (sermopoetarum); (2) the growing need for technical and special terms; (3) the general authorization to use words from every part of Italy (Quintilian); (4) the increasing association of latinitas with consuetude; (3) the revolution of linguistic theory caused by Christian authors. Finally, the paper shows how grammarians in the late Latin period turned away from banishing foreign words and preferred only to set up rules of fitting them into the traditional language system.
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- Masthead
- Table of Contents
- Gualthari Calboli Praefatio Latina in Epistulae Modum Confecta
- Latin Linguistics in Machtelt's way
- Phonetics and Morphology
- The Latin Third Declension in the Scope of Natural Morphology
- Subjonctif Latin (-sē) et futur Indien (-sya-)
- Some remarks on the graded forms with sub- in Latin
- The sigmatic subjunctive in Plautus and Terence
- Sprachliche Beobachtungen am Formular lateinischer Kaiser-Inschriften des Ostens
- La morphologie nominale d'après le De analogia de César
- La diptongación de /e/ y /o/ breves latinas en territorio hispano
- Middle Voice in Latin and the phenomenon of Split Intransitivity
- Los verbos 'frecuentativos' con sufijo -it- en la comedia de Plauto y Terencio: Primera parte
- Latin syllable structure in typological perspective
- Zur Forschungsgeschichte der lateinischen Nominalkomposition Per una storia degli studi sulla composizione nominale latina
- Old and new (un)certainties regarding the Lapis Satricanus
- Attivo e deponente nei verbi in -fico(r) a primo elemento sostantivale
- Semantics and Lexicology
- Die etymologische Herleitung des Namens Latium
- Vocabulary of the Apocalypse of Paul
- La "traductibilité" des noms propres dans le cadre du bilinguisme gréco-latin
- El comportamiento en latín de tres lexías complejas
- La (dés)-intensification dans les adjectifs latins : les morphèmes de degré
- La estructura de oposición privativa y la dialéctica de Hegel
- Semántica Cognitiva del latín (II): haeret haec res, o qué es un "problema" en latín
- Facies equum currere : Sens et emploi de facere dans les textes vétérinaires latins
- On Tense, Viewpoint and Actionality in Vulgar and Literary Late Latin
- Quasi and tamquam — Some Developments in Imperial Latin
- Semantic Roles within a Contrastive Grammar of Latin and German
- Les procédés de création lexicale mis en oeuvre par Lucrèce
- Modality's semantic maps. An investigation of some Latin modal forms
- Lagunas léxicas en latín
- Le parfait latin, entre acquis et révolu
- Champ lexical et polysémie : l'expression du pardon en latin
- Verba peregrina: Von der Interdiktion zur Integration
- Un nom de l'arpenteur en latín : agrimēnsor
- A few remarks on the habeo + object + passive perfect participle construction in archaic Latin, with special reference to lexical semantics and the reanalysis process
- Die Etymologie von caballus
- Syntax and Pragmatics
- The tense of speech indications in Vergil's Aeneid
- ¿Accusativus pendens en Latín?
- Word length and clitics in Latin
- Indefinite pronouns in conditional clauses
- Interférences fonctionnelles entre relatives, complétives et circonstancielles
- Subordination seconde du relatif. Contraintes d'emploi.
- Inserción sintáctica y Función Semántica en construcciones de Dativos no 'posesivos' + sum
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Table of Contents
- Gualthari Calboli Praefatio Latina in Epistulae Modum Confecta
- Latin Linguistics in Machtelt's way
- Phonetics and Morphology
- The Latin Third Declension in the Scope of Natural Morphology
- Subjonctif Latin (-sē) et futur Indien (-sya-)
- Some remarks on the graded forms with sub- in Latin
- The sigmatic subjunctive in Plautus and Terence
- Sprachliche Beobachtungen am Formular lateinischer Kaiser-Inschriften des Ostens
- La morphologie nominale d'après le De analogia de César
- La diptongación de /e/ y /o/ breves latinas en territorio hispano
- Middle Voice in Latin and the phenomenon of Split Intransitivity
- Los verbos 'frecuentativos' con sufijo -it- en la comedia de Plauto y Terencio: Primera parte
- Latin syllable structure in typological perspective
- Zur Forschungsgeschichte der lateinischen Nominalkomposition Per una storia degli studi sulla composizione nominale latina
- Old and new (un)certainties regarding the Lapis Satricanus
- Attivo e deponente nei verbi in -fico(r) a primo elemento sostantivale
- Semantics and Lexicology
- Die etymologische Herleitung des Namens Latium
- Vocabulary of the Apocalypse of Paul
- La "traductibilité" des noms propres dans le cadre du bilinguisme gréco-latin
- El comportamiento en latín de tres lexías complejas
- La (dés)-intensification dans les adjectifs latins : les morphèmes de degré
- La estructura de oposición privativa y la dialéctica de Hegel
- Semántica Cognitiva del latín (II): haeret haec res, o qué es un "problema" en latín
- Facies equum currere : Sens et emploi de facere dans les textes vétérinaires latins
- On Tense, Viewpoint and Actionality in Vulgar and Literary Late Latin
- Quasi and tamquam — Some Developments in Imperial Latin
- Semantic Roles within a Contrastive Grammar of Latin and German
- Les procédés de création lexicale mis en oeuvre par Lucrèce
- Modality's semantic maps. An investigation of some Latin modal forms
- Lagunas léxicas en latín
- Le parfait latin, entre acquis et révolu
- Champ lexical et polysémie : l'expression du pardon en latin
- Verba peregrina: Von der Interdiktion zur Integration
- Un nom de l'arpenteur en latín : agrimēnsor
- A few remarks on the habeo + object + passive perfect participle construction in archaic Latin, with special reference to lexical semantics and the reanalysis process
- Die Etymologie von caballus
- Syntax and Pragmatics
- The tense of speech indications in Vergil's Aeneid
- ¿Accusativus pendens en Latín?
- Word length and clitics in Latin
- Indefinite pronouns in conditional clauses
- Interférences fonctionnelles entre relatives, complétives et circonstancielles
- Subordination seconde du relatif. Contraintes d'emploi.
- Inserción sintáctica y Función Semántica en construcciones de Dativos no 'posesivos' + sum