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The publication of the Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1521) was a determining factor in the development of Roman studies in the 16th-century. As the first collection of classical inscriptions from the city of Rome,... more
Rassegna critica dei prestiti semitici antichi nel latino. Considerazioni metodologiche. Dimensione diastratica. Cronologia e ambientamento storico-culturale. Voci di origine fenicia, punica, ebraica, aramaica. Mediazione del greco e... more
ABSTRACT: In the New Testament Vulgate, the Greek verb μισέω (“to hate”) is translated either as the Latin verb odi, or as the constructions with support verb odio habeo and odio sum. In order to understand the criteria that explain these... more
This electronic book contains the answer keys for 'Nova exercitia Latina I', an exercise book mainly for those who use 'Familia Romana', the first volume of H. H. Ørberg’s 'Lingua Latina per se illustrata'. You can buy it here:... more
An analysis of the lexical choices between words with close or similar meanings in Latin epig-raphy is one way to understand lexical variation in the language. This study focuses on formal, semantic and other reasons for the use of the... more
Epigraphy is, in its essence, an act of writing, which implies the use of a specific alphabet and a codified language. The language of Latin inscriptions is often expressed in standard formulas, but it also shows different registers and... more
The main goal of this doctoral dissertation is to describe the collocational radius of five predicate nouns that belong to the semantic field of feelings: odium «hatred», invidia «envy, unpopularity», laetitia «joy», gaudium «delight» and... more
This Excel file is a WORK IN PROGRESS on Indo-European basic lexicon, aligning PIE reconstructions from IEW, LIV and Mallory-Adams with intermediate reconstructions of IE sub-families found in several other sources (mainly Brill / Leiden... more
This paper uses the conceptual framework of “Anchoring Innovation”, which is being developed by OIKOS, the Dutch National Research School in Classical Studies, in order to assess matters of religious continuity and change in the late... more
Un viaggio tra le forme e gli usi del latino, dalle sue lontane origini indoeuropee alle più vicine propaggini romanze, captando i segnali fugaci della lingua parlata e meditando le parole imperiture di poeti e letterati, delineando... more
Commento analitico ai capitoli 75-77 del Satyricon, porzione del romanzo petroniano nota come "autobiografia di Trimalchione". La figura letteraria di Trimalchione è stata costruita da Petronio come rappresentante di un preciso ceto... more
Co-author: Dr Nicholas Zair (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
Please note that these are the uncorrected proofs.
This 1996 essay (published 1998) on how to improve Latin pedagogy is reproduced here with minor changes. Early modernity's humanist approaches to the teaching of Latin have much to offer us, and they can help us to counter the... more
In this paper I examine the language of the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, in particular the inset narrative attributed to Perpetua herself, in order to assess whether it is as artless and colloquial as earlier scholars have... more
Vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema der Sprachsituation im Römischen Reich der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike, und konzertiert sich auf die parallele Entwicklung der lateinischen und griechischen Sprache. Die Arbeit ist also... more
La presente investigación analiza la política migratoria del Estado venezolano durante la administración de Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958). A partir de diciembre de 1952 hasta enero de 1958, gobierna Venezuela, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, primero... more
J'essaie de montrer ici, avec des exemples, que c'est la fréquence croissante des prépositions qui a fait un terrain favorable à la disparition des déclinaisons. Il s'agit d'un problème traditionnel de linguistique historique qui permet... more
Dag Norberg's analysis and interpretation of Medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears here for the first time in English with a detailed, scholarly... more
La novità del libro risiede nel focus sulla categoria, ampia e sicuramente intuitiva, dell’‘osceno’, che riassume una larga parte dell’universo mentale degli antichi graffitari e degli altri autori dei testi qui raccolti, e... more
This paper examines the enormous productivity of Latin in the English language throughout time. Influences, however, will be remarked on the lexical and morphological fields. Therefore, due to length restrictions, other aspects such as... more
Este texto é a tradução e adaptação de um podcast do historiador Patrick Wyman, que introduz didaticamente uma série de tópicos ligados à transformação do latim nas línguas românicas, entre eles: a difusão do latim com império; situação... more
La historia de un pueblo, en esencia, es la historia del modo en que su gente se comunica entre sí y con los ajenos. La historia es un devenir de entendimientos y discordias, de comunicación y de malentendidos, entre propios y extraños,... more
ABSTRACT The Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan) are the modern languages that evolved from Latin. Today, about 1/3 of the countries of the world speak a language or dialect derived from Latin. At... more
Análisis histórico y crítico de la producción literaria en lengua latina realizada en al-Andalus, delimitando claramente los géneros y temáticas, y nómina de escritores mozárabes, con el fin de reconstruir la historiografía de una de las... more
(Revised version) This work aims to clarify the phonetics and phonology of sibilants and sibilant clusters in the Italic languages, and will specifically attend to the outcomes of /ns/ and /rs/ in different positions. The structure and... more
The primary object of this manual is the evolution of the Latin language from the period of kings to the Romanbarbaric age. The novelty of the manual consists in the systematic correlation between the language and its historical context... more