Nunc age . . . expediam: A Didactic Introductory Construction in Virgil’s Poetry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Volume I: Word
5. Section 1: Phonology and Morphology
6. Rix’s Law in Latin and the Etymology of īnfula ‘band, bandage’ 1
7. Language Change across the Ancient Lifespan: Variation in the Genitive Singular of Second Declension io-stems in Ovid 15
8. Marciana: A Case Study in Greek-Influenced Endings 31
9. Nasal Presents in Latin between Root, Aspect and Actionality: A Nanosyntactic Account 49
10. Verbs in -sc- between Inflection and Derivation. Lexicographic Representation and Theoretical Issues 67
11. Section 2: Lexical Semantics
12. Lexique et cognition en latin : la dénomination des catégories naturelles 85
13. Las oposiciones privativas descubiertas en Praga y la tradición erudita latina 105
14. Between Linguistics and Stylistics: Nominal Compounding and Literary Genre in Latin 121
15. The Thing Is . . . : Observations on the Largest Noun in Latin, the Entry res in the Thesaurus linguae Latinae 139
16. A New Approach to the Etymology of Latin testa ‘earthenware’ and tesca/tesqua ‘?’ 153
17. Il lessico del vestiario nel glossario latino-greco degli Hermeneumata Celtis 167
18. Enantiosemia in Latin: The Case of Lexemes Suffixed in -ōsus in the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius 173
19. Latin Blues: A Corpus-Based Investigation of caeruleus 189
20. On the Evolution of Latin Motion Verbs. A View from Vindolanda 211
21. Alternating Opinions. Latin Opinion Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of Non-Prototypical Transitivity 229
22. Light Verbs and Aktionsart: A Case Study 247
23. Contributing to a New Database on Valency Classes with Latin Data. Challenges and Perspectives 263
24. The Prefix circum- and the Locative Alternation in Latin: The Case of circumdo 283
25. Drawing the Comitative Area: The Semantic Network of co(-m/-n/-r/-l)-/cum in Plautus 299
26. Caught in Between: A Synchronic and Diachronic Account of inter- Prefixation in Latin 317
27. Inversive re-. How to Undo an Action 339
28. Sull’etimologia del lat. ballo e del gr. βαλλίζω (con integrazioni sugli esiti romanzi di denso / addenso e su alcuni termini greci per indicare la danza) 357
29. Volume II: Clause and Discourse
30. Section 3: Syntax and Semantics
31. Lepidus vivis: Semantic Content and Functional Gradation in Secondary Predicates 373
32. Ablativus absolutus with the Perfect Participle: Grammatical Relations and Diathesis 399
33. Latin Constructions sum + Present Participle: Pragmatic and Syntactic Evidence against the Periphrastic Analysis 415
34. L’évolution de la négation entre double négation (DN) et concordance négative (NC) dans les langues anciennes et modernes 433
35. Ita ou sic corrélatifs de complétives 451
36. L’insertion syntaxique d’un constituant nominal dans la comparaison similative 467
37. Présentations différentes d’un contenu sémantique en latin : la synonymie syntaxique au niveau du syntagme et au niveau de la proposition 487
38. “Valenzmisere” and Latin Syntax and Semantics 499
39. LASLA-SynthIA, a New Tool to Study Latin Word Order: the Case-Study of the Left- and Right-Dislocations in the Pro Roscio Amerino 517
40. “Long-Distance Hyperbaton”: A Case Study based on Cicero’s Orations 527
41. Section 4: Text Structure and Pragmatics
42. Nunc age . . . expediam: A Didactic Introductory Construction in Virgil’s Poetry 549
43. Per exempla: The Forms and Uses of Example Markers in Latin 565
44. Apte dicere. Epistemic Phrases and Facework in Cicero’s Oratorical Works 583
45. ¿Cómo pedir humildemente? La perífrasis dignari + infinitivo 597
46. The Sequence [subject + verb sum + aliquid/ nihil subject complement]: A Comparative Study while Analysing an Ovidian Textual Motif 615
47. Translatio facta: Pomponius Porphyrio on the Comprehension and Production of Metaphors 641
48. Section 5: Conversation and Dialogue
49. The Quotative inquit as a Device of Speech Segmentation in the Roman Novel 661
50. (Story)telling in the Latin Novel and Epigram 679
51. Continuations by Others 703
52. Movenda iam sunt bella: Persuasion in Juno’s Prologue to Hercules Furens 721
53. Pro di immortales! Invocations and Oaths as Interjections 739
54. Semantic Diversity and Conversational Potential of faxo in the Language of Roman Comedy 757
55. Section 6: Epigraphy
56. Fecit curavit: A Micro-Contextual Approach to Epigraphic Formulae and Textual Variation in Latin Inscriptions 775
57. Divodurum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Divodurum (Metz) 789
58. Index 805