Topicalization versus Left-Dislocation in Biblical Latin
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Bernard Bortolussi
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Lyliane Sznajder
Abstract
Latin and Old French exhibit a fairly similar range of constructions emphasizing the Topic: Topicalizations and Left-Dislocations. Our aim is to investigate the hypothesis of a continuity from Latin to Romance languages. In this context we look into the data provided by the Vulgate. Indeed Jerome's choices in his translation of the Biblical texts reveal the level of vitality of each construction.
Actually Jerome chooses Topicalizations rather than Left-Dislocations, although Left-Dislocations were the usual way of emphasizing Topics in Biblical Hebrew. After a summary of Archaic and Classical Latin constructions, we compare Jerome's strategies on the one hand with the data from Vetus Latina, on the other hand with some contemporary texts, such as Augustine's Sermons and Itinerarium Egeriae. In conclusion, we try to summarize continuities and discontinuities in diachronic change regarding the ways of emphasizing Topics.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Topicalization versus Left-Dislocation in Biblical Latin
- A short note on the notion of register in Latin: on the interplay between register, diastratic variety, and communicative intention
- Some remarks on the prehistory of omnis and other Latin pronouns and adjectives meaning ‘all’ or ‘whole’
- Some remarks on intensification of nouns in Latin
- Polyfunctionality and transcategoriality of coordinating particles in Latin and in other ancient languages
- Latin parts of speech in historical and typological context
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Topicalization versus Left-Dislocation in Biblical Latin
- A short note on the notion of register in Latin: on the interplay between register, diastratic variety, and communicative intention
- Some remarks on the prehistory of omnis and other Latin pronouns and adjectives meaning ‘all’ or ‘whole’
- Some remarks on intensification of nouns in Latin
- Polyfunctionality and transcategoriality of coordinating particles in Latin and in other ancient languages
- Latin parts of speech in historical and typological context
