Abstract
After defining grammatical (as opposed to lexical) homonymy as concerning either inflection or the conflict between different parts of speech, attention is paid to those contexts in which Varro and Quintilian dealt with processes falling under that concept. The paper remarks on the acute distinction Quintilian seems to make between lexical and grammatical homonymy by dealing with the former in relation to rhetoric and the latter within the grammatical chapters of book I. The similarity of Quintilian’s approach to homonymy is then shown with the use Apollonius Dyscolus would later make of the term synemptosis as a morphological coincidence of word forms. The parallel doctrine and terminology in later Latin traditions is also considered.
Funding statement: This paper has benefitted from grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Project FFI2014-52808-C2-2-P) and the Autonomous Government of Aragón, Spain (Grupo Consolidado H19).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic hypercorrectness versus colloquial use in Latin at first century BC and afterwards
- Deposing deponency: Latin non-denominal deponents are not grammatically idiosyncratic verbs
- Quintilian on “grammatical homonymy”: The linguistic sensibility of a Roman lawyer
- Gerundial constructions, stylistic variation and linguistic change between Latin and Romance: Evidence from the Codex diplomaticus Cavensis
- Book Reviews
- Rolando Ferri, & Zago Anna (eds.).: The Latin of the Grammarians, Reflections about Language in the Roman World
- Sen, Ranjan: Syllable and Segment in Latin