A CHRESTOMATHY OF VULGAR LATIN

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.)

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.

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.

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 ...

2005

Some gems of Latin with full grammatical notes and commentary