Sabellian Demonstratives

Forms and Functions
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21540-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 799 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics

Past research on the Sabellian languages has been devoted mainly to the phonetic and morphological features of these languages as elements for the reconstruction of the prehistoric stages of Latin. The present book aims at analysing the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of a subset of grammatical terms, the demonstratives. It contains a thorough description of their synchronic behaviour, which permits both a comparison to the Latin data with new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of the Italic origins of these terms based on typological principles. Neither the grammar of Sabellian nor the pragmatic scope of the Sabellian inscriptions should be considered a priori identical to their Latin comparanda.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students in the fields of Latin and Italic linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, typological linguistics, Latin epigraphy, and history of Republican Italy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dupraz, Emmanuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Dupraz, Emmanuel
Emmanuel Dupraz, docteur (2003), Université Paris IV, habilitation (2010), EPHE, is maître de conférences of Latin Linguistics at the Université de Rouen. He has published on Sabellian languages and epigraphy, including Les Vestins à l’époque tardo-républicaine (PURH, 2010).