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Language and Rhythm in Plautus - Synchronic and Diachronic Studies (Hardcover)
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Language and Rhythm in Plautus - Synchronic and Diachronic Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Sozomena
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The plays of Plautus have long been recognized as a unique mine of
information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
But detailed and up-to-date linguistic treatments of the Plautine
meters and other phenomena in his plays have hitherto been lacking.
This book seeks to remedy that gap by presenting a series of
case-studies to glean information about the synchronic grammar of
Plautine Latin, in particular the rhythmic organization of Latin
speech and the effects of syntactic processes on Latin prosodic
phonology. Some of the topics, such as enjambement and the
aphaeresis of "est", have never before received such treatment,
while others, such as Meyer's and Luchs's laws, split resolutions,
and iambic shortening, are provided a firmer linguistic footing,
and fuller discussion of allied issues, than hitherto. Topics in
Italic syntax (such as the syntactic structure of adpositional
phrases and their history) and in Indo-European morphophonology
(such as the prosodic status of finite verbs) are dealt with as
well, as is an investigation into the effects of pragmatics on the
rhythmic organization of phrases. The book will be of interest to
classicists, comparative philologists, and general linguists.
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