Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception

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This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.

‘It is a great achievement, and I expect it both to be a foundation stone for much further research in this area, and to make a significant intervention into our definition of, and thinking about, Early Latin.’

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Early Latin
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Early Latin - Title page
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Constructs, Diversity, Reception
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Copyright page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Tables
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Chapter 1 - Introduction: What Is ‘Early Latin’?
pp 1-12
- By Giuseppe Pezzini, Anna Chahoud
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Part I - The Epigraphic Material
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Chapter 2 - Alphabet, Epigraphy and Literacy in Central Italy in the 7th to 5th Centuries bc
pp 15-40
- By Rex Wallace
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Chapter 3 - Identifying Latin in Early Inscriptions
pp 41-62
- By Simona Marchesini
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Chapter 4 - The Egadi Rostra
pp 63-76
A Linguistic Analysis
- By Wolfgang de Melo
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Part II - Drama
pp 77-272
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Chapter 5 - Metre
pp 79-99
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Chapter 6 - Morphology and Syntax
pp 100-117
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Chapter 7 - Support Verb Constructions in Plautus and Terence
pp 118-137
- By José Miguel Baños
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Chapter 8 - Ecquis in ‘Early Latin’
pp 138-156
Aspects of Questions
- By Colette Bodelot
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Chapter 9 - Indirect Questions in ‘Early Latin’
pp 157-205
- By Peter Barrios-Lech
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Chapter 10 - Latin edepol ‘by Pollux!’
pp 206-220
Background of a Latin Aduerbium Iuratiuum
- By Brent Vine
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Chapter 11 - Early Latin Lexicon in Terence (and Plautus)
pp 221-250
- By Giuseppe Pezzini
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Chapter 12 - A Comparison of the Language of Tragedy and Comedy in Early Latin Drama
pp 251-272
- By Robert Maltby
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Part III - Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
pp 273-408
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Chapter 13 - The Language of Early Latin Epic
pp 275-291
- By Sander M. Goldberg
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Chapter 14 - Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
pp 292-310
- By J. N. Adams, Veronika Nikitina
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Chapter 15 - Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts
pp 311-326
- By Olga Spevak
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Chapter 16 - Repetition in the Fragmentary Orators
pp 327-350
From Cato to C. Gracchus
- By Christa Gray
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Chapter 17 - How ‘Early Latin’ Is Lucilius?
pp 351-372
- By Anna Chahoud
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