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Author: Philomen Probert
Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent offers a fresh perspective on a long-standing debate about the value of Latin grammarians writing about the Latin accent: should the information they give us be taken seriously, or should much of it be dismissed as copied mindlessly from Greek sources? This book focusses on understanding the Latin grammarians on their own terms: what they actually say about accents, and what they mean by it. Careful examination of Greek and Latin grammatical texts leads to a better understanding of the workings of Greek grammatical theory on prosody, and of its interpretation in the Latin grammatical tradition. It emerges that Latin grammarians took over from Greek grammarians a system of grammatical description that operated on two levels: an abstract level that we are not supposed to be able to hear, and the concrete level of audible speech. The two levels are linked by a system of rules. Some points of Greek thought on prosody were taken over onto the abstract level and not intended as statements about the actual sound of Latin, while other points were so intended. While this book largely sets aside the question whether the Latin grammarians tell us the truth about the Latin accent, focussing instead on understanding what they actually say, it begins to offer answers for those wishing to know when to ‘believe’ Latin grammarians in the traditional sense: the book shows which of their statements are intended – and which are not intended – as statements about the actual sound of Latin.
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 2.4. 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
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Latin Proclitics II: Earlier Stages of the Tradition
- 5.1. P.Sorb. Inv. 2069 on Unde
- 5.2. Aulus Gellius
- 5.3. Velius Longus
- 5.4. Quintilian
- 5.5. Remmius Palaemon
- 5.6. Conclusions
- 6. que, ue, ne, ceLatin 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
- 6.9. How Far Back Can We Trace the Tradition?
- 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
- 8.3. Late Antique Grammarians on Latin Words that Deviate from the Penultimate Law
- 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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