Overview

This is the first 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. In order to see what functions such forms fulfil, one has to compare their usage to that of the regular verb forms. In Part 1, Wolfgang de Melo outlines the usage of regular verb forms, which, surprisingly, has not always been described adequately in the standard grammars. In Part 2, the central part of the book, he compares the usage of the extra-paradigmatic verb forms to that of the regular ones, restricting himself to Archaic Latin (roughly before 100 BC); here he makes many new and unexpected discoveries. In Part 3, de Melo shows how synchronic usage can help us to reconstruct earlier stages of the language which are not attested; he also points out that, while most of the extra-paradigmatic forms die out after 100 BC, some survive - and that such survival is by no means a matter of chance.

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Author:   Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (, Post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.647kg
ISBN:  

9780199209026

ISBN 10:   0199209022
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   27 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: an archaic verbal system? I. Four problems in the Latin verbal system 2: Simple future and future perfect in Archaic Latin 3: The sequence of tenses in Archaic Latin 4: Prohibitions with `feceris' and `facias' in Archaic Latin 5: Infinitivals with future meaning in Archaic Latin II. The extra-paradigmatic verb forms - a synchronic analysis 6: The sigmatic future in Archaic Latin 7: The sigmatic subjunctive in Archaic Latin 8: The sigmatic infinitives 9: The type `duim' in Archaic Latin 10: The type `attigas' in Archaic Latin III. The extra-paradigmatic verb forms - a diachronic analysis 11: Some problems of reconstruction 12: Extra-paradigmatic forms in classical and later Latin IV. A brief summary of the results

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Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo is a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls, University of Oxford.

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