This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities
in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the
Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages
admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary
language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in
the written record (and in Romance). Are certain similarities
between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they be
superficial, reflecting different phenomena at different periods?
Most of the chapters, on numerous syntactic and other topics and
using different methodologies, have a long chronological range. All
attempt to identify patterns of change that might undermine any
theory of submerged continuity. The patterns found are summarised
in a concluding chapter. The volume addresses classicists with an
interest in any of the different periods of Latin, and Romance
linguists.
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