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Latin grammarians on the latin accent : the transformation of Greek grammatical thought / Philomen Probert

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Probert, Philomen
Published
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
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xxiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Some History of Scholarship: An Unhelpful Question and Some Helpful Ones -- 2.1.Pitch or Stress? -- 2.2.Why `Pitch or Stress' is an Unhelpful Question -- 2.3.Some Helpful Questions -- 2.3.1.An Accent on the Final Syllable of Prepositions and Relative Pronoun Forms? -- 2.3.2.An Accent on the Syllable before an Enclitic? -- 2.3.3.An Acute/Circumflex Contrast? -- 2.4.Questions That Will Not Be Pursued in This Book -- 3.Ancient Greek Theory of Prosody: Some Relevant Characteristics -- 3.1.Ancient Terms and Concepts for Greek Accentuation -- 3.2.Two Levels of Description -- 3.3.`Natural Accents' as Abstract Entities -- 3.4.A Second Function for `Natural Accents' -- 3.5.Discussion of Accents in Texts -- 3.6.Alternative Descriptions of the Same Facts -- 3.7.Distinctions can be Reinterpreted as Abstract -- 4.Latin Proclitics I: Late Antique Grammarians -- 4.1.Approach One: One Level of Description -- 4.2.Approach Two: On an Abstract Level Proclitics Obey the `Penultimate Law' -- 4.3.Approach Three: An Acute on the Final Syllable, on an Abstract Level -- 4.4.Latin is not Greek: Challenges for Approach Three -- 4.4.1.The Scope of the Lulling Rule -- 4.4.2.Proclitics with a Long Final Vowel -- 4.4.3.Proclitics before Enclitics -- 4.5.Conclusions -- 5.Latin Proclitics II: Earlier Stages of the Tradition -- 5.1.P.Sorb. inv. 2069 on unde -- 5.1.1.Excursus: Indefinite Words in Priscian -- 5.1.2.P.Sorb. inv. 2069 and Priscian on unde: A Comparison -- 5.2.Aulus Gellius -- 5.3.Velius Longus -- 5.4.Quintilian -- 5.5.Remmius Palaemon -- 5.6.Conclusions -- 6.que, ue, ne, ce: Latin Grammarians on Enclitics -- 6.1.Approach One: One Level of Description -- 6.2.Approach Two: A Forward Shift of Accent -- 6.3.Approach Three: One Accent Shifts Forward and One is Lost -- 6.4.Approach Four: The Second Accent Shifts Backward and the First is Lost -- 6.5.When is que not an Enclitic? -- 6.6.Enclitics after Prepositions -- 6.7.Latin Grammarians on que, ue, ne, ce: A Summary -- 6.8.Whether to Take the Grammarians' Principle Seriously -- 6.8.1.Further Evidence for the Linguistic Reality of the Pair itaque ~ itaque -- 6.9.How Far Back can we Trace the Tradition? -- 6.9.1.The Common Source of Diomedes and Donatus -- 6.9.2.Varro -- 6.9.3.Early Latin? -- 7.Latin Vowel Length -- 7.1.Loss of Distinctive Vowel Quantity in Latin -- 7.2.Vowel Length in Late Antique Latin Grammarians -- 8.The Latin Circumflex -- 8.1.When did Greek Acutes and Circumflexes Stop Sounding Different? -- 8.2.Early Stages of the Acute/Circumflex Distinction in the Latin Grammatical Tradition -- 8.2.1.Cicero -- 8.2.2.Varro -- 8.2.3.Vitruvius -- 8.2.4.Quintilian -- 8.2.5.Aulus Gellius -- 8.2.6.Early Stages of the Tradition: A Summary -- 8.3.Late Antique Grammarians on Latin Words That Deviate from the Penultimate Law -- 8.3.1.Grecizing Accents on Final Syllables -- 8.3.2.Accents on Final Syllables of Apocopated and Syncopated Forms -- 8.3.3.Wrong Accents -- 8.3.4.Abstract Accents -- 8.3.5.Ergo `For the Sake of' -- 8.3.6.insula -- 8.3.7.Deviations from the Penultimate Law: A Summary -- 8.4.The Circumflex Debate: A Proposed Resolution -- 8.5.A Footnote: Late Antique Grammarians and the `Slow' Accent -- 9.`For the Sake of a Distinction'? -- 9.1.pone -- 9.2.ergo -- 9.3.Aeneid I. 32 -- 9.4.Valeri -- 9.5.Conclusions -- 10.Conclusions.
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ISBN
0198841604 hardback
9780198841609 hardback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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