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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent - The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought (Hardcover)
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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent - The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought (Hardcover)
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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent offers a fresh perspective on
a long-standing debate about the value of Latin grammarians writing
about the Latin accent: should the information they give us be
taken seriously, or should much of it be dismissed as copied
mindlessly from Greek sources? This book focusses on understanding
the Latin grammarians on their own terms: what they actually say
about accents, and what they mean by it. Careful examination of
Greek and Latin grammatical texts leads to a better understanding
of the workings of Greek grammatical theory on prosody, and of its
interpretation in the Latin grammatical tradition. It emerges that
Latin grammarians took over from Greek grammarians a system of
grammatical description that operated on two levels: an abstract
level that we are not supposed to be able to hear, and the concrete
level of audible speech. The two levels are linked by a system of
rules. Some points of Greek thought on prosody were taken over onto
the abstract level and not intended as statements about the actual
sound of Latin, while other points were so intended. While this
book largely sets aside the question whether the Latin grammarians
tell us the truth about the Latin accent, focussing instead on
understanding what they actually say, it begins to offer answers
for those wishing to know when to 'believe' Latin grammarians in
the traditional sense: the book shows which of their statements are
intended - and which are not intended - as statements about the
actual sound of Latin.
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