Word-final-sin Ennius’Annales: a sociolinguistic approach
| Autor: | Nicholas Zair |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Latin Linguistics. 20:265-284 |
| ISSN: | 2194-8747 2194-8739 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/joll-2021-2004 |
| Popis: | In Ennius’Annales, as in other Roman poetry of the third, second, and to some extent first centuries BC, a word-final syllable consisting of a short vowel followed by-scan scan as light even when followed by a word beginning with a consonant. In theAnnales, light scansion is the norm in the second part of the foot (thesis), but heavy scansion is found four times. I argue that attempts to emend away these instances of heavy scansion are not founded on strong arguments. Rather, the infrequency of final-smaking position in thesis can be put down to the sociolinguistic situation of the time, in which deletion or weakening of final-sco-existed with its presence, with the latter being characteristic of more formal speech. |
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