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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Language, Ancient"”.
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The emergence of the Romance languages from Latin: A case for creolization effects.
… played a role in the emergence of the Romance language from Latin. Creolization and normal language change differ in terms of their respective effects upon inflectional morphology: normal language change yields morphological loss and morphological creation through grammaticization. Creolization …
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Commented translation of an excerpt from Hunayn Ibn Ishaq's epistle to his patron 'Ali ibn Yahya on the translations of Galen.
This thesis consists of a commented translation of an excerpt from a ninth century C.E. letter by the celebrated Arabic translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. The epistle is addressed to one of his patrons, 'Ali ibn Yahya, and gives an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as well as their …
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"A Commentary to Longus, ""Daphnis and Chloe,"" Book 3"
… form a genre now regularly referred to as the Ancient Novel. Book 3 (of 4) is pivotal in many ways for Daphnis and Chloe as a whole, acting as a hinge connecting the first two books with the last. The plot changes direction dramatically; a new character is introduced, the sophisticated …
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*V: An Optimality-Theoretic Examination of Vowel Loss Phenomena, With Special Reference to Latin, Early Western Romance, and Basque
… varying details of vowel loss in the range of languages/dialects examined as stenuning from different rankings of *V vis-a-vis other important constraints on syllable and metrical structure, so that in some instances we observe vowel loss which is quite restrained and ""orderly,"" whereas in …
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The Latin Vocabulary of Non-Articulated Sounds
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Umbilicus Runicus: Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
The dissertation examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If one examines the …
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A Concordance to Statius
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Vocabularium Bruxellense: A Study of Its Sources With Particular Reference to Paulus's Epitome of Festus
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The Latin Preposition 'In' With Personal Object
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Greek Lexicography in the Papyri
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"Ps.-Seneca ""de Spe"" (Anth. Lat. 415 Riese): Prolegomena, Text, Translation, Commentary"
A critical text of the poem, with full apparatus and English translation, is presented. The manuscript tradition of the Anthologia Latina and the Leidensis Vossianus Latinus Quarto 86 (which contains De Spe) are described. The historical process by which the Senecan epigrams came to be attributed …
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Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory
Vedic Sanskrit, the early Indo-European language spoken by the Aryan invaders of India in the 2nd millenium B.C.E., is a language showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of …
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"The ""Fabulae Hygini"" reappraised: A reconsideration of the content and compilation of the work"
"In the field of classical mythology, the work known as the Fabulae Hygini occupies a central position with its wide variety of information and subject matter. However, treatment of the Fabulae outside an apparatus criticus is sparse: the collection is typically summarised as merely a supplementary …
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Epictetus on speech: The argument
This thesis consists of a critical text, translation and running commentary on Epictetus II.23 which is entitled On the faculty of speech. In this diatribe, Epictetus discusses the proper role of speech, rhetoric and logic in the philosophical life. The commentary attempts to elucidate Epictetus' …
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Word order in ancient Greek: VSO, SVO, SOV, or all of the above?
Post-Homeric Greek is a language which has a high degree of freedom in the placement of words/phrases within the sentence, so much so that there have been competing claims regarding the so-called 'basic' or 'unmarked' order of constituents. VSO, SVO, and SOV have all been claimed to be the 'basic' …
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Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions
Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher and poet of the first century B.C., attempted to modernize Epicureanism by integrating poetry into its doctrines. His goals in his $\pi\varepsilon\rho\grave{\iota} \pi o \iota\eta\mu\acute{\alpha}\tau\omega\nu$ were to refute carefully Epicurus' rejection of …
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A study of nominal compounds in Sino-Japanese
… is an important part of the Japanese language. It is unique in the sense that it has many properties the rest of Japanese does not have. This is due to the fact that Sino-Japanese is not native to the Japanese language, but is borrowed from the Chinese language centuries ago. As a …
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"Wine, song, and the potens vates: The sympotic structure of Horace's ""Odes"""
Horace's sympotic odes dispel two assumptions that have captivated Horatian studies: (1) There is no linear thematic progression from one book of Odes to another, and (2) book IV represents a decline in Horace's lyric expression.
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Aspiration in Chinese
This dissertation studies aspiration in Chinese in these four areas: the temporal relationships between aspiration and the vowel of the syllable, the perception of aspiration, the correlation between pitch and aspiration, and the role of aspiration in a historical change in Chinese. Data based on …
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The Old Spanish -ie imperfect
This study presents for the first time a novel solution for the origin and demise of the Old Spanish -ie imperfect tense ending, through the comprehensive documentation of Old Spanish and dialectal literatures spanning six centuries. The extant phonetically-motivated and analogically-driven …
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