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  • Spoken and Written Latin

  • Ernst Pulgram
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 26 / Issue 4-Part1 / December 1950
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    22 April 2026, pp. 458-466

  • The great number of definitions proposed for the term Vulgar Latin mirrors the plurality of Vulgar Latin theories, which cannot all be correct. They not only do not all coincide, which is but natural, but some of them are radically opposed to each other. Since all of them are based on the same records, the divergence of theories must spring from the interpretation and not from the nature of the evidence.

    One may completely discard, as the majority of scholars have done, the idea that spoken Vulgar Latin is the chronological successor (a corruption) of Classical Latin. Apart from this antiquated view, there are, roughly, two types of Vulgar Latin theories. First, there are theories which propose that there was, especially during the Empire and the early Middle Ages, a linguistic unity of popular speech throughout the Roman and Romanized world; according to some scholars this unity dissolved in the 5th or 6th century of our era, according to others not before the end of the 8th or 9th century. Second, there are theories which insist on early dialectalization of Latin, or indeed maintain that there never was, outside of early Latium, a single unified Latin, or anything but a number of local dialects, especially in the Romania outside of Italy.

  • Morpheme Alternants in Linguistic Analysis

  • Zellig S. Harris
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 18 / Issue 3 / September 1942
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    22 April 2026, pp. 169-180

  • The purpose of this paper is to suggest a technique for determining the morphemes of a language, as rigorous as the method used now for finding its phonemes. The proposed technique differs only in details of arrangement from the methods used by linguists today. However, these small differences suffice to simplify the arrangement of grammars.

  • LAN volume 8 issue 2-Part2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 8 / Issue 2-Part2 / June 1932
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f4
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  • LAN volume 9 issue 4-Part2 Cover and Front matter

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    Language / Volume 9 / Issue 4-Part2 / December 1933
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f4
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  • An Elamite Etymology

  • Herbert H. Paper
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 29 / Issue 1 / March 1953
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    22 April 2026, pp. 66-68

  • This note discusses an Elamite etymology, hitherto unrecognized, to show how certain hypotheses concerning the interpretation of Elamite cuneiform writing can lead to a deeper understanding of Elamite phonology and morphology, and to a more precise identification of particular forms known from Elamite texts. Among the Elamite documents, the royal texts from the Achaemenid period represent a particular dialect that we shall call Royal Achaemenid Elamite (RAE). The existence of a large number of graphic variants for the same form in the RAE texts led Weissbach, as early as 1890, to certain phonemic conclusions regarding the Elamite cuneiform symbols.

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