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Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin (Hardcover)
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Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study
of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden
properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of
esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This
phenomenon is largely unknown since classical texts have undergone
a long process of transmission over the centuries, which has
altered or deleted its traces. Although they are often neglected by
scholars and puzzling to students, the use of contracted forms is
shown to be widespread and significant. These forms expose the
clitic nature of esse, which also explains other properties of the
verb, including its participation in a prosodic simplification with
a host ending in -s (sigmatic ecthlipsis), a phenomenon which is
also discussed in the volume. After an introduction on methodology,
the volume discusses the linguistic significance of such phenomena,
focusing in particular on analysis of their behaviour in the plays
of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence. Combining traditional
scholarship with the use of digital resources, the volume explores
the orthographic, phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of
the verb esse, revealing that cliticization is a key feature of the
verb 'to be' in Latin, and that contractions deserve a place within
its paradigm.
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