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Journal of Latin Linguistics

ISSN: 2194-8747

Edited by: Gualtiero Calboli, Pierluigi Cuzzolin

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Latin is a corpus language with an impressively rich textual and intellectual tradition. The language was passed down through manuscripts and inscriptions and was the lingua franca in international communication and scientific writing, scholarship and science until well into the 18th century. The greatest corpus of fundamental works as Newton’s Principia Mathematica has been written in Latin. All Romance languages have their origin in dialects of Latin, and the influence of Latin is also conspicuous in languages like English and German. As a result of this long tradition and of the influence on the languages spoken today, the study of Latin is of high relevance for modern linguistic research. The Journal of Latin Linguistics (formerly known as Papers on Grammar) is the only journal devoted entirely to Latin in both synchronic and diachronic perspective. All linguistic phases of Latin - Archaic, Classical, Vulgar, Medieval, Renaissance, Modern - are treated. The Journal of Latin Linguistics fills a conspicuous gap in the scientific literature and is arguably the most important journal for Latin linguistics. The editors and members of the advisory board are renowned scholars in the field. Rigid peer-reviewing is applied.

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Volume 22 Issue 1

May 2023

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September 5, 2023

Multiplication, addition, and subtraction in numerals: formal variation in Latin’s decads⁺ from an Indo-European perspective

Brigitte L. M. Bauer

Page range: 1-56

Abstract

While formal variation in Latin’s numerals is generally acknowledged, little is known about (relative) incidence, distribution, context, or linguistic productivity. Addressing this lacuna, this article examines “decads + ” in Latin, which convey the numbers between the full decads: the teens (‘eleven’ through ‘nineteen’) as well as the numerals between the higher decads starting at ‘twenty-one’ through ‘ninety-nine’. Latin’s decads + are compounds and prone to variation. The data, which are drawn from a variety of sources, reveal (a) substantial formal variation in Latin, both internally and typologically; (b) co-existence of several types of formation; (c) productivity of potential borrowings; (d) resilience of early formations; (e) patterns in structure and incidence that anticipate the Romance numerals; and (f) historical trends. From a typological and general linguistic perspective as well, Latin’s decads + are most relevant because their formal variation involves sequence, connector, and arithmetical operations and because their historical depth shows a gradual shift away from widespread formal variation, eventually resulting in the relatively rigid system found in Romance. Moreover, the combined system attested in decads + in Latin – based on a combination of inherited, innovative and borrowed patterns and reflecting different stages of development – presents a number of typological inconsistencies that require further assessment.

September 5, 2023

A distributional analysis of vowel quantity in a corpus of Latin texts

Giovanna Marotta, Irene De Felice

Page range: 57-79

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The paper examines the relationship between vowel quantity, syllable structure and lexical stress in Latin through a quantitative analysis carried out on a corpus of literary texts taken from Cicero’s Epistulae ad familiares and Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis . Each word of the corpus was split into syllables and phonemes. Then, the corpus was annotated with phonological and prosodic information pertaining to vowel length, syllable structure, stress and word length. Finally, the data collected were analyzed at different levels. The results are discussed in light of the findings of a previous analysis carried out on dictionary entries, confirming a close correlation between syllable structure and lexical stress, since the great majority of stressed syllables are heavy both in the literary corpus and in the dictionary. Moreover, long vowels are more frequently found in open and stressed syllables, particularly in paroxytones. The data suggest that the process leading to the loss of vowel quantity was already active (at least in some strata of Roman society) in the Latin of the Classical age, since a prosodic template similar to that occurring in many Romance developments emerges even in literary Latin texts.

September 5, 2023

Eichner’s law in Latin, Greek and beyond: some neglected evidence

Vincent Martzloff, Barbora Machajdíková

Page range: 81-130

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According to a phonetic rule commonly referred to as Eichner’s law , the quality of a long * ē was not affected by an adjacent laryngeal * h 2 or * h 3 in the prehistory of the individual Indo-European languages: Latin spērāre ‘hope’ < * spēh 2 -s- (desiderative), Old Slavic spěti ‘be successful’ < * spēh 2 - (cf. * sph 2 -ró- in Ved. sphirá- and Lat. prosperus ; * speh 2 -i-s- in Old Slavic spěxŭ ); Tocharian B yerpe < *h 3 ērb h -o- ‘disk, orb’ (without colouration) versus Latin orbis < * h 3 orb h -i- ‘circle’. The purpose of the article is not to reassess the value of all reconstructions involving Eichner’s law, but to focus primarily on two neglected examples supporting its validity: Latin īdūs < * h 2 ēid- ‘Ides’, a term originally referring to the full moon, for which a connection with aemidus < * h 2 eid- (a term glossed as tumidus ) can plausibly be argued; Greek ἔγκατα < * h 2 ēnk- ‘mass of the inner organs of the thorax and of the upper part of the abdomen’ related to ὄγκος ‘swelling, tumour, bulk’ (from an older meaning ‘curvature’; the word constantly refers to volume , not to weight). The striking structural parallelism between ἔγκατα < * h 2 ḗnk-r/n- ‘pluck’ (with Osthoff-shortening) and ἧπαρ < * (H)yḗk w -r/n- ‘liver’ requires a close reexamination of the latter word and a detailed discussion of the puzzling vocalism of Lat. iecur , gen. iocineris . The study aims at offering a careful analysis of these items, taking into account their precise semantics and the relevant comparative data. Particular emphasis will be laid upon the derivational processes responsible for the morphological shape of the lexemes under discussion. It will appear that the Classical languages, especially Latin, can make a decisive contribution to the understanding of the morphology of lengthened-grade formations, which in turn offer new insights into the history of the Latin and Greek lexicons.

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Volume 21 (2022)

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Volume 19 (2020)

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Volume 17 (2018)

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Volume 15 (2016)

Volume 14 (2015)

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Volume 11 (2010)

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Editors
Gualtiero Calboli
Universita di Bologna
Dip. di Filologia Classica e Italianistica
Italy
Email: gualtiero.calboli@unibo.it

Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Academia Europaea
Italy
Email: pierluigi.cuzzolin4@gmail.com

Editorial Board
Marc Baratin (Université de Lille, Lille, France)
Hugo Beikircher (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, München, Germany)
Bernard Bortolussi (Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France)
Ramón Gutiérrez González (Oviedo, Spain)
Marco Mancini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy)
Anna Orlandini (Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Hannah Rosén (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Donna Shalev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Heikki Solin (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Lyliane Sznajder (Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France)
Javier Uría (Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)

Advisory Board
Philip Baldi (Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA)
Giovanbattista Galdi (University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium)
Gerd Haverling (Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden)
David Langslow (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Maria Napoli (Università degli studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy)
Davide Ricca (Università di Torino, Torino, Italy)
Olga Spevak (Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France)

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Online ISSN: 2194-8747
Print ISSN: 2194-8739
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: April 20, 2013
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: researchers and linguists in the field of Latin and Romance languages and historical linguistics

Journal of Latin Linguistics

Frontmatter

Multiplication, addition, and subtraction in numerals: formal variation in Latin’s decads+ from an Indo-European perspective

Abstract

A distributional analysis of vowel quantity in a corpus of Latin texts

Abstract

Eichner’s law in Latin, Greek and beyond: some neglected evidence

Abstract

Multiplication, addition, and subtraction in numerals: formal variation in Latin’s decads⁺ from an Indo-European perspective