Colloquial and Literary Latin (CUP 2010)

Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2020

the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1 This Colloquium was realized as the thirteenth one in a series of Colloquia devoted to all linguistic aspects of Late and Vulgar Latin (including the transition from Latin to Romance), and it was dedicated to the memory of József Herman, who organized the first Colloque international sur le Latin Vulgaire et Latin Tardif (Latin vulgaire-latin tardif I) in Pécs, Hungary, 1985. Since then the colloquia have been held regularly for more than three decades.

Diacronia

This paper stems from two different perspectives—that of the Latinists, and that of the Romanists—upon the concept of ‘Vulgar Latin’, perspectives that have given rise to a friendly debate between Pierre Flobert and Eugeniu Coșeriu. We try to highlight a number of lexical elements that are common to Classical and Vulgar Latin. Our approach leans upon the idea (found also with Maria Iliescu) that the diachronic vision upon language must take into consideration the sum of the histories of the words that belong to that language. Observing several lexical items excerpted from texts belonging to various epochs of the Latin culture (Archaic, Classical, Late), to various authors (Cicero, Vergilius, etc.), and to authors whose works contain elements of spoken language (Plautus, Petronius, etc.), from works of a high level language (epics, discourse, dissertation), and from texts with strong marks of orality (comedies, letters, sermons), we were able to see the semantic evolution of several ...

Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics. Vol. I. Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics; Vol. II. Semantics and Lexicography. Discourse and Dialogue, Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024

The volumes contain a selection of contributions fi rst presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de Compostela in 2022. They cover essential topics in Latin linguistics from a variety of theoretical and metho dological approaches. The first volume includes papers on Latin Syntax and Semantics, Latin Syntax and Pragmatics, Greek-Latin language, and Digital Linguistics; the second volume includes papers on Semantics and Lexicography, Etymology, Discourse strategies, and a special section devoted to the analysis of Conversation and Dialogue.

2015

The Oxford handbook ofNeo-Latin / edited by Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg. pages cm -(Oxford handbooks) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-19-994817-8 (hardback)-ISBN 978-0-19-998420-6 (online file) 1. Latin literature, Medieval and modern-History and criticism. 2. Latin language-History. I. Tilg, Stefan.

The concept of a colloquial variety of Latin as an intermediate variety between Latin and the Romance languages has a long standing. Sometimes called Vulgar or Popular Latin, this variety is often conceptualized as a discrete linguistic variety, which is held responsible for the changes in the provincial realization of Latin. Since a great deal of evidence for this variety is collected from written texts, studies on the emergence of the Romance languages have tended to ignore the actual process of language acquisition in the provinces of the Roman empire. In the present paper I draw attention to the work of two early scholars, the Italian Celso Cittadini (1533-1627) and the Frenchman Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy (1694-1770), who did concern themselves with the acquisition of Latin, referring to the role of the Roman army in spreading the Latin language throughout the empire. Their suggestions about the process of Latinization can be substantiated with data on the military presence in the provinces of the Roman empire.

Introduction to Vulgar Latin. Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Summerschool course), Summer semester 2012–13, Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics VIII, Leiden University, Leiden. (Slides.)

Journal of Roman Studies, 2007