The early Latin verb system : archaic forms in Plautus, Terence, and beyond

The early Latin verb system : archaic forms in Plautus, Terence, and beyond / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo.

This title provides a comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo de, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Latin language, Preclassical to ca. 100 B.C. > Verb.
Latin language, Preclassical to ca. 100 B.C. > Tense.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Latin literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Any verb form of Classical Latin can be assigned to one of the three stems: the infectum-stem, the perfectum-stem, or the supine-stem. In Archaic Latin, on the other hand, there are also verb forms which do not belong to these stems, the so-called extra-paradigmatic forms. Such forms are at the heart of Wolfgang de Melo's study, which asks what they mean, how they are used, and what they go back to. Since their meaning is best examined by contrasting them with the regular forms, the first part of the book discusses selected problems of the regular verbal system of Archaic Latin. In the second part, the meaning of the extra-paradigmatic forms is established by contrasting them with the regular ones. The third part goes beyond Archaic Latin, not only examining the origins of the extra-paradigmatic forms, but outlining their survival after the archaic period. The meaning and use of the forms in Archaic Latin provides the basis for both types of diachronic study."--Jacket.

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