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Journal articles on the topic "Latin grammarians"

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Zago, Anna. "Mytacism in Latin grammarians." Journal of Latin Linguistics 17, no. 1 (2018): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/joll-2018-0002.

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Abstract This paper focuses on the different definitions of the so-called mytacism in Latin grammarians (from the early imperial period to twelth-century treatises), starting from an assessment of the textual basis of their statements. Mytacism is a vitium orationis which affects the phonetic realization of the final group vowel + [m] when followed by another vowel; mytacism also raises various phonetic and rhetorical issues such as weakening of the sound [m], nasalization of the preceding vowel, elision and hiatus. Two competing theories in modern scholarship (weak nasal consonant versus nasa
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Pultrová, Lucie. "Ancient Latin grammarians on suppletion." Journal of Latin Linguistics 20, no. 1 (2021): 109–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/joll-2021-2018.

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Abstract The term “suppletion”, introduced by Osthoff (1899. Vom Suppletivwesen der indogermanischen Sprachen. Heidelberg: Universitätsbuchdruckerei Hörning), was traditionally used to refer to an inflectional paradigm containing forms based on two or more etymologically different stems. In the last decades, however, it has been argued that etymology does not contribute to our understanding of the phenomenon, and it should be strictly defined on synchronic terms: simply as the peak point on the formal irregularity scale, regardless of the actual origin of the irregularity. Under this approach,
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Walvoort, Hendrik Christiaan. "Declension of the Latin present participle in connection with its syntactico-semantic use." Journal of Latin Linguistics 17, no. 1 (2018): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/joll-2018-0001.

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AbstractThis paper deals with the declension of the Latin present active participle (ppa), which shows several inconsistencies: the ablative singular for instance may end in -eor in -i(sapiente, sapienti) and the genitive plural may end in -umor -ium(sapientum, sapientium). Some grammarians, notably modern ones, assume that there are syntactico-semantic considerations or circumstances, leading to ablative -eending when verbal force is intended (such as in the ablative absolute) or substantival force, and to -iending when there is nominal, notably adjectival force. I have investigated whether a
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Jones, Christopher P. "Grammarians and Emperors." Mnemosyne 75, no. 1 (2022): 58–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10136.

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Abstract The Greek γραµµατικός combined several functions: as editor and expounder of texts, linguist, librarian, lecturer, courtier and sometimes as ambassador for his monarch or city. In due course Latin-speaking grammatici applied philological skills developed at Alexandria to their own literature, and served as librarians in the great libraries of the imperial period. The present paper studies some Greek γραµµατικοί active in Rome, particularly Alexander of Cotiaeon, appointed by Antoninus Pius as tutor to the princes Marcus and Lucius, and also the teacher of Aelius Aristides. As Aristide
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Kaster, Robert A. "The Insular Latin Grammarians. By Vivien Law." Historiographia Linguistica 12, no. 3 (1985): 433–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.12.3.10kas.

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Chernysheva, Vlada A. "The Concept of Inchoativity in Works of Latin Grammarians." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, no. 466 (2021): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/15617793/466/5.

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This article touches upon the idea of inchoativity in the works of Roman grammarians. It aims to observe the development of the usage of the term inchoativus in the Roman grammatical tradition. The study is based on Latin grammatical treatises dating back to the 3rd-7th centuries A.D., the most part of which was published by Heinrich Keil in the second half of the 19th century. Besides Keil's edition, the article refers to recent editions of grammatical treatises. The study was conducted using three digital textual databases including Corpora Corporum, Digital Library of Latin Texts, and PHI L
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Oniga, Renato, and Alessandro Re. "L’analyse synchronique des composés nominaux du latin hier et aujourd’hui." L'antiquité classique 86, no. 1 (2017): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/antiq.2017.3907.

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Synchronical Analysis of the Nominal Compounds in Latin : Yesterday and Today – The study of nominal compounds in classical antiquity shows some similarities with contemporary linguistics, especially generative grammar. Ancient grammarians wished to develop a synchronic typology based on the inflectional features of the two members of the compound and the presence of the derivation. The introduction of syntactic criteria and the identification of the special characteristics of bahuvrīhi compounds are the main achievements of the Indian grammarians. Starting from a fundamentally Sanskrit typolo
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Poppe, Erich. "Latin grammatical categories in the vernacular." Historiographia Linguistica 18, no. 2-3 (1991): 269–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.18.2-3.02pop.

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Summary The grammatical category ‘declension’ cannot be applied to Welsh substantive nouns since they have one form only for the singular and the plural respectively. But some Welsh grammarians of the 16th and 17th centuries tried to use this category to classify substantive nouns by proposing new definitions, based on the system of plural formation (Robert 1567) or on the system of initial mutations (Rhys 1592; Salesbury 1593). The latter approach formed a short-lived ‘paradigm’ in Welsh grammaticography with a dynamism of its own. It became divorced from the classification of nouns only and
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Hovdhaugen, Even. "Genera verborum quot sunt?" Historiographia Linguistica 13, no. 2-3 (1986): 307–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.13.2-3.10hov.

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Summary This article is a study of how Roman grammarians treated a specific grammatical problem, viz., the description and classification of verbal gender in Latin. The results show that various theories were put forward and various possibilities for systematizing and explaining the data were proposed in the works of the grammarians of the 3rd and 4th centuries. Out of the discussion of these grammarians there emerged in the works of the grammarians of the 5th and 6th centuries (notably Phocas, Pompeius, and Priscian) a rather adequate description. While morphological and semantic criteria wer
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Mari, Tommaso. "The Grammarian Consentius on Errors Concerning the Accent in Spoken Latin." Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59, no. 1-4 (2020): 623–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/068.2019.59.1-4.54.

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Summary:The 5th-century Gaulish grammarian Consentius wrote an extensive treatise on errors in spoken Latin. In the Roman grammatical tradition, errors in single words are deemed to arise by means of the improper addition, removal, substitution, and misplacement of one of the constitutive elements of the word (letter, syllable, quantity, accent, and aspiration). Late grammarians assumed that the four catego- ries of change applied to accents too, but only Consentius provided an example for each of these cases. However, his discussion poses some problems. The examples of removal, substitution a
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Latin grammarians"

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Debouy, Estelle. "Édition critique, traduction et commentaire des fragments d' Atellanes." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100156/document.

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Le sujet sur lequel porte cette thèse de doctorat est l’atellane. La première partie de la thèse consiste à présenter ce genre, ce qui a conduit l'auteur à s’intéresser à sa place et à son statut, à la lumière de ce qu’écrit Tite-Live notamment. Puis est proposée une interprétation des fragments qui nous sont parvenus : l'auteur montre que si l’atellane emprunte au théâtre d’Aristophane ou de Plaute notamment, elle a aussi son originalité propre. Après cette étude générale, la thèse présente l'histoire du texte. Comme aucun manuscrit des auteurs d’atellanes n'a été conservé, c'est uniquement p
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Bramanti, Andrea. "Nuova edizione critica e commento delle Artes grammaticae (libri I-II) di Plozio Sacerdote e dei Catholica Probi." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL022.

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Quoiqu’il soit le premier grammairien arrivé à nous, auteur de trois livres presque entièrement conservés, Marius Plotius Sacerdos, maître d’école à Rome à la fin du IIIe siècle ap. J.-C., pour longtemps a été négligé. Maintenant, l’étude de l’entière tradition manuscrite, incluant pour la première fois les contributions des copies humanistiques, a permis de dépasser les limites de l’édition de Keil et d’établir une nouvelle édition critique des deux premiers livres de sa grammaire ainsi que celle des Catholica Probi, en tant que forme parallèle et séparée du deuxième livre. Comme d’habitude,
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El, Matouni Fatima. "Diomede grammatico : fonti, tradizione manoscritta, circolazione e ricezione della sua opera. Edizione critica di una sezione del capitolo ‘De verbo’ (GL I 364-388)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2023SORUL102.pdf.

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Le présente thèse, qui constitue une première étape vers une nouvelle édition de l''Ars grammatica' de Diomède, propose le texte critique et le commentaire d'une partie du premier livre de ce manuel, correspondant à la discussion sur la formation du parfait, les verbes défectifs et certains verbes irréguliers (GL I 364, 10-388, 10). L'introduction, organisée en cinq chapitres, aborde premièrement les questions relatives à l'auteur (chapitre I) et à l'ouvrage en général, puis elle donne un aperçu de sa structure et de son contenu, en accordant une attention particulière aux caractéristiques lié
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Bodin, Camille. "Servius, commentaire sur "l’Énéide" de Virgile (livre V) : introduction, traduction, annotation et commentaire." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCC018.

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Rédigé vraisemblablement à la fin du IVe siècle, à une époque où l’enseignement traditionnel des écoles romaines se maintient et où le paganisme cherche à conserver sa place face au christianisme, le commentaire de Servius à l’Énéide de Virgile, dont le livre V fait l’objet du présent travail, est une œuvre particulièrement importante. Il est destiné à ouvrir à ses auditeurs (les élèves de la classe de Servius), puis à ses lecteurs, la possibilité de mieux comprendre le texte virgilien, et il offre au spécialiste moderne de multiples traces de rites, croyances, pratiques et récits mythologique
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Desiderio, Janyce. "La notion d’archaïsme chez les grammairiens latins ; avec une édition commentée de l’œuvre fragmentaire de Flavius Caper." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040196.

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En deux parties distinctes mais complémentaires, ce travail se présente comme le parallèle dans le domaine grammatical des recherches menées sur l’archaïsme dans la rhétorique et la littérature latines. Nous analysons tout d’abord la manière dont les grammairiens latins, de Varron à Priscien, considèrent ce phénomène, dans le cadre de la définition de la langue latine correcte (Latinitas). Les questions du recours aux archaïsmes dans l’usage et de l’autorité des auteurs littéraires anciens, telles que l’on peut les retrouver dans les textes du corpus des grammatici Latini, sont au centre de no
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Campanholo, Priscila de Oliveira. "Os comentários de Sérvio Honorato ao \"Canto VI\" da Eneida." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-16022009-144550/.

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A noção de comentário está intrinsecamente ligada ao trabalho de editar textos, que era feito em bibliotecas antigas, como a de Alexandria, e aos compêndios de gramática, que sistematizavam os conceitos utilizados para a leitura dos textos. Além disso, esse material de anotações e explicações era utilizado no ambiente escolar, como um apoio elucidativo de passagens obscuras, de palavras e costumes antigos, de mitos e histórias e de usos gramaticais, por exemplo. Entre os autores que passaram pelo crivo dos comentadores e que, então, faziam parte do programa escolar, está Vergílio, como nos ind
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Boikou, Angeliki. "Aux origines de "l'expressionnisme" dans la littérature latine : reconstitution et analyse des poèmes de Laevius et de Matius." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL135.

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Cette étude vise à reconstituer les origines d'une tendance de la littérature latine que l'on qualifie souvent d'« expressionnisme » et à analyser les œuvres fragmentaires de deux poètes peu connus, Laevius et Cn. Matius, dont nous sont parvenus une cinquantaine d'extraits environ. Le poète Laevius est présenté par les sources comme l'auteur des Erotopaegnia, un recueil lyrique de poèmes d'amour en mètres divers. Le terme paegnia fait penser aux Παίγνια que Philétas de Cos avait composés au IIIe s. av. J.-C. Quant à Matius, il traduit en latin l'Iliade d'Homère et écrit des mimiambes, à l'inst
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SPANGENBERG, YANES ELENA. "Commento al lessico sintattico greco-latino di Prisciano." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/930515.

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La tesi consiste in un commento filologico e linguistico alla seconda metà del libro XVIII dell'Ars grammatica di Prisciano (GL III 278-377), i cosiddetti Atticismi, che concludono l'opera e la cui nuova edizione critica è stata recentemente pubblicata dalla Prof.ssa Michela Rosellini (2015). Questa sezione finale dell'Ars consiste in un lessico sintattico bilingue: una serie di costrutti greci (per lo più verbali), derivati da una fonte lessicografica atticista, vengono messi a confronto con i corrispettivi latini allo scopo di perfezionare la competenza linguistica dei lettori che aspirano a
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Books on the topic "Latin grammarians"

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Zago, Anna. The Latin of the grammarians: Reflections about language in the Roman world. Brepols Publishers, 2016.

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Pellizzari, Andrea. Servio: Storia, cultura e istituzioni nell'opera di un grammatico tardoantico. L. S. Olschki, 2003.

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Pellizzari, Andrea. Servio: Storia, cultura e istituzioni nell'opera di un grammatico tardoantico. L.S. Olschki, 2003.

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Ballaira, Guglielmo. Prisciano e i suoi amici. G. Giappichelli, 1989.

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G, Taiphakos Iōannēs, ed. The origins of European scholarship: The Cyprus Millennium International Conference. F. Steiner Verlag, 2005.

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The Insular Latin grammarians. Boydell Press, 1987.

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Probert, Philomen. Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.001.0001.

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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 should be dismissed as copied mindlessly from Greek sources? This book focuses on understanding the Latin grammarians on their own terms: what do they actually say about accents, and what do 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
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Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Suetonius. The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: Grammarians And Rhetoricians. Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

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Farriss, Nancy. Language Barriers under Siege. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884109.003.0005.

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The program and techniques of language acquisition undertaken by the colonial church relied mainly on the missionary linguists and the young Indian tutors they recruited. Together they devised orthographies in the Latin alphabet for hundreds of indigenous languages, an alphabet that gradually replaced the native systems of glyphs for recording information. Within decades, well in advance of European grammarians and lexicographers, they had also produced dictionaries and grammars for all the major and many of the minor vernacular languages, along with catechisms and other devotional literature.
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Versteegh, Kees. "Grammarians and Diglossia." In Documenter et décrire les langues d’Asie : histoire et épistémologie. Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4000/138mn.

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Collecting linguistic data in a diglossic speech community poses a special challenge for grammarians because of the socially sensitive variation between a High and a Low variety. In Ferguson’s (1959a) original definition only those cases counted as diglossia in which the varieties belonged to the same language. Later definitions expanded the scope to include communities where non-cognate languages serve as High and Low variety, which are much easier to keep apart for both speakers and grammarians. In this paper I explore how Latin and Arabic grammarians dealt with the linguistic variation in their speech community. They regarded all variation as part of one language; yet, in their description of the language they limited themselves to data from the High variety, which was the only one recognized by them as correct speech. Even when they referred to speech errors, they did not target the Low colloquial, but mistakes made in writing by semi-literate users of the High variety.
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Van Rooy, Raf. "Complexity or copia?" In Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4000/132jy.

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In this paper, I argue that sixteenth-century grammarians did not operate with a concept of linguistic complexity. Instead, in their intuitive comparisons of languages, they started from the widespread humanist concept of copia, “abundance”. Focusing on contrastive discussions of Latin and Greek, I aim to illustrate how the copia concept structured their assessment of these and other languages, especially the European vernaculars. In Latin-versus-Greek contrastive descriptions, found especially often in Greek grammars of the time, Greek usually emerged as the most copious language due to such “extra” categories as the article, dual, aorist, and middle voice. There were, however, respects in which Latin enjoyed more copia, such as certain nominal forms of the verb and the ablative case. Finally, I offer some reflections on the relationship of the copia concept to modern notions of “complexity” and “difficulty”, arguing for the importance of factoring in cultural circumstances in complexity research.
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Chevillard, Jean-Luc. "Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics?" In Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sihols.133.11che.

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European missionaries engaged in the linguistic description of 16th–18th c. Tamil Nadu discussed two possible attitudes. Proença (1625–1666), who wrote in Portuguese, thought that the most important task was to concentrate on what is useful pera a pratica “for practical purposes” and wanted to master ordinary language, both (A) in its colloquial forms — including substandard and dialectal variants — and (B) in its more standardized form. Beschi (1680–1747), who wrote in Latin, thought he could become influential by mastering (C) Centamiḻ, the poetic “more elegant” dialect, cultivated for many centuries by traditional grammarians and poets of Tamil Nadu. This article evokes the strategies of Proença, Beschi and others, who navigated the components of Tamil “triglossia”, in which both (A) and (C) can coexist with (B), but not simultaneously. Either (C) is ignored, being considered as “useless for practical purposes”, or (A) is shunned, being considered as “barbaric”.
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Herren, Michael W. "The Hiberno-Latin Poems in Virgil the Grammarian." In Latin Letters in Early Christian Ireland. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003555469-21.

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"5. Latin Grammarians." In Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.107.06lat.

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Probert, Philomen. "que, ue, ne, ce." In Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.003.0006.

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Latin grammarians held that the enclitics que, ue, ne, and ce caused the accent of the preceding word to fall on that word’s final syllable, regardless of the quantity of that syllable. Some modern scholars have regarded the grammarians as somewhat inconsistent on this point, or have noted that relevant discussions occur only in late works. But differences of opinion have focused especially on whether to consider the grammarians’ view worth serious attention in the first place. Chapter 6 considers Latin grammarians’ discussions first and foremost on their own terms: what do grammarians actually say about que, ue, ne, and ce, and what do they mean by it? The chapter also returns to the question whether the grammarians are telling us something serious about Latin, and if so for what period of the language.
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Probert, Philomen. "Conclusions." In Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.003.0010.

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Chapter 10 draws the main conclusions together and offers some reflections on the old debate about the value of the Latin grammarians on the Latin accent. The book has largely set aside the question whether Latin grammarians tell us the truth about accents, but it has asked whether Latin grammarians’ statements, when taken on their own terms, are actually intended to pertain to the audible sound of Latin. This book has argued that it depends: some of their statements are so intended, and some are not. To finish with, the discussion is expanded to show how Latin grammarians treated prosody as they treated other aspects of the Latin language too, and how they proceeded as people usually do proceed when they learn techniques for talking about a language from people who use them to talk about a different language.
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Probert, Philomen. "The Latin Circumflex." In Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.003.0008.

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To some scholars, the Latin grammarians’ distinction between acute and circumflex accents for Latin has to be taken seriously. To others, it is a particularly clear example of absurdity inspired by Greek grammarians. Chapter 8 considers the evidence for this doctrine and shows that it has some intriguing characteristics brought out, in part, by grammarians’ discussions of accent mistakes and of the accentuation of Greek words used in Latin. The chapter goes on to argue that at an early stage of the Latin tradition on prosody, learned Romans made sense of the Greek distinction between acute and circumflex accents in such a way that they trained themselves to think they could hear a corresponding distinction in Latin.
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Probert, Philomen. "Some History of Scholarship." In Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.003.0002.

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Modern discussion of the Latin accent can be said to have begun in earnest with the publication of Weil and Benloew’s Théorie générale de l’accentuation latine in 1855. Responses to this work divided scholars strongly into two opposing camps—or rather, they strengthened and extended a pre-existing division into two camps that had originally concerned only the relationship (if any) between Latin metrical forms and the position of the Latin word accent. On closer inspection the two camps turn out to be rather loose alliances, but when the focus is on the Latin accent itself they rally around opposing answers to a central question: did Latin have a pitch accent or a stress accent? Chapter 2 sketches the beginnings of this battle and the main turns it has taken, and then argues that it is a mistake to see ‘pitch or stress accent’ as the crucial question, or even as a meaningful one. Even attempts to offer intermediate views mostly put a misconceived and unhelpful question at the centre of the argument. But if this question can be put to one side, some genuine questions come into view.
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Probert, Philomen. "Latin Proclitics I." In Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841609.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 considers the late antique evidence for a widespread doctrine of the Latin grammatical tradition: that prepositions, relative pronoun forms, and certain other words have an acute accent on their final syllables, in apparent violation of the usual principles of Latin accentuation. The doctrine belongs to a way of talking about the accentual behaviour of proclitic words: words that are normally pronounced without an accent and form a prosodic unit with what follows. An abstract acute accent is assigned to the final syllable so that this can undergo a rule ‘lulling’ an acute on a final syllable into a grave (non-accent) in connected speech. The lulling rule is borrowed from descriptions of Greek, but we see various efforts to adjust its details so as to avoid results that are not intended for Latin. We also see other ways of saying that proclitic words are normally pronounced without an accent.
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