The articulus according to Latin grammarians up to the early Middle Ages: The complex interplay of tradition and innovation in grammatical doctrine
| Autor: | Pierre Swiggers, Tim Denecker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Demonstrative Linguistics and Language Pronoun History media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Doctrine 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies Part of speech Language and Linguistics Linguistics Late Antiquity State (polity) 0602 languages and literature Middle Ages 0509 other social sciences Classics Ancient Greek grammar media_common |
| Zdroj: | Glotta. 94:127-152 |
| ISSN: | 2196-9043 0017-1298 |
| DOI: | 10.13109/glot.2018.94.1.127 |
| Popis: | © Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2018. Ancient Greek grammar, and in particular its parts-of-speech system, provided the conceptual and terminological basis for the description of the Latin language. This transfer caused a number of (sub)categorial "frictions", due to the structural differences that exist between both languages. A specific instance is that of the article, (Greek Passage) or articulus, which was considered (part of) a separate part of speech in Greek, but which is absent from Latin. In this paper we discuss the views and comments expressed on this issue by Latin grammarians up to the early Middle Ages. While some of the grammarians deny that there is an article in Latin, others state that it does exist, but that it does not "count" as a separate part of speech, or that it is "substituted for" with the demonstrative pronoun. Their comments are illustrative (a) of the various adaptive strategies followed in the "bargaining situation" constituted by the projection of the Greek parts-of-speech system upon the Latin language; (b) of transformations undergone by the Graeco-Latin grammatical legacy in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages; and (c) of a push chain of changes in the anaphoric-deictic (sub)system of Latin pronouns. ispartof: Glotta vol:94 pages:127-152 status: published |
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