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1 Introduction The dialectological characterization of the inscriptional Latin of the Danubian provinces on the basis of various linguistic criteria has been studied for a long time, and even some recent works touched upon the subject. However
1 Introduction Although Adams has already discussed some of the (mainly lexical) regional features of Gallic Latin through the analysis of non-epigraphic corpora, 1 Herman's work La langue latine dans la Gaule romaine continues to be decisive for
hasta hace poco tiempo. Recientemente han aparecido varios estudios que analizan el DD en el latín tardío y su introducción (p. ej. Gayno, 2 Sznajder, 3 Mikulová 2015, 4 2017 5 ). El presente artículo continúa esta línea de investigación y, añadiendo
1 THE SARDINIAN VOWEL SYSTEM As is well known, the most remarkable property of the vowel systems of the Romance languages is that none of them preserves Latin distinctive vowel quantity. 1 In particular, as far as stressed vowels are concerned
Press . Baldi , Philip . 2002 . The foundations of Latin . Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter
* Jelen tanulmány az NKFIH (OTKA) K 108399 és 124170 ny. sz. „Császárkori latin feliratok számítógépes nyelvtörténeti adatbázisa” (3. és 4. szakasz) című projektje keretében az MTA ‘Lendület
1 INTRODUCTION For more than one hundred years, curse tablets have been representing one of the main direct sources of Vulgar Latin. Besides being essential for scholars in field of ancient magic and religion, these small sheets of metal usually
In this paper we look at the demise of perfective reduplication in Latin and seek to answer the question why this process of erosion followed a phonologically rather strictly defined path. The small set of remaining reduplicated perfects is not a random collection of leftovers from the ruins of earlier morphology (as it is e.g. in Gothic) but displays remarkable phonological coherence in the documented period of the language. To understand why this should be so we look at the relevant phonotactic properties of simplex forms. It appears quite clearly that, for a variety of reasons, the number of stems beginning with p V p , t V t , k V k , b V b and s V s increased in the prehistory of Latin. The fact that this occurred and that voiceless stops figure more prominently in this configuration than other types of consonants may well have given rise to a new phonotactic pattern in which such stem-initial sequences were now legitimate (as opposed to Proto-Indo-European). It seems to be a plausible explanation that perfective verb forms remained reduplicated only if they conformed to this new phonotactic pattern.
This study is dedicated to the memory of József Herman who in 1983 first introduced 2 the idea of examining the possibility of a Vulgar Latin isogloss in the provinces of the Alps-Danube-Adria region, based on the historical analysis of Jürgen Unter
The aim of the project entitled “Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age” ( http://lldb.elte.hu/ ) is to develop and digitally publish a fundamental computerized historical linguistic database that incorporates and treats the Vulgar Latin material of the Latin inscriptions from a specific group of the European provinces of the Roman Empire in the first phase. This will, on the one hand, allow for a more thorough study of the regional changes and the diversity of the Latin language of the Imperial Age. On the other hand, it could also serve as a basis for subsequent international co-operation, in the course of which further work on the computerized historical linguistic database may be executed. This paper intends to present the past and the present, as well as the future possibilities of this Database.
