Some observations on ille and ipse in the Mulomedicina Chironis
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Rossella Iovino
Abstract
This paper deals with the use of ille and ipse in the veterinary treatise Mulomedicina Chironis (fourth century AD). We will first give the quantitative analysis of the data, then we will focus on the cases in which ille and ipse co-occur with a noun or as pronouns. Regarding ille, we will propose that, even in the absence of morphological distinctions, it presents the syntactic features of three different categories, namely (a) an anaphoric demonstrative, which will turn into the definite article; (b) a strong pronoun; (c) a weak pronoun from which clitic pronouns will develop in Romance. As for ipse, we will show that it can both co-occur with a noun already known in the context expressing anaphoricity, and be a subject and a direct/indirect object pronoun. Furthermore, it can be introduced by a preposition. When it is a pronoun, ipse expresses anaphoricity as well, although in many contexts (especially when it is used as a subject pronoun), it is possible to identify an emphatic value for ipse, which can presumably be due to the realisation of the subject in a pro-drop language.
Acknowledgements
This paper represents an elaborated and extended version of my presentations on the syntactic and semantic values of ille and ipse in the Mulomedicina Chironis at the International Conference Latin Vulgaire, Latin Tardif X (Bergamo, September 2012) and XI (Oviedo, September 2014), respectively. I would like to thank Giuliana Giusti and Adam Ledgeway for helpful comments on a previous version of this paper; Iulia Heybrock-Zegrean for the English version of the paper; and the two anonymous reviewers for their observations. All remaining errors are obviously only mine.
Critical edition
Oder, Eugenius. 1901. Claudii Hermerii Mulomedicina Chironis edidit Eugenius Oder. Lipsiae in Aedibus B. G. Teubneri + Codex Basiliensis D II 34.Search in Google Scholar
Concordance
Blackman, Deane R. & Gavin G. Betts. 1998. Concordantia in Mulomedicina Chironis. Alpha-Omega: Lexica, Indizes, Konkordanzen zur klassischen Philologie, Vol. 86. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann.Search in Google Scholar
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- Frontmatter
- Latin free-choice pronouns in relation to one another (and to other indefinites)
- The argument/satellite distinction and absolute verbal use in Latin stative verbs
- Two letters by Brutus and Cassius to Mark Antony: different people, different times, different styles
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- Appositive construction or noun phrase? On the status of postnominal adjectives in Latin and Ancient Greek
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