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.
Author(s): Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 400
Contents......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 15
Abbreviations and Editions......Page 18
1. Introduction: An Archaic Verb System?......Page 20
The Regular Forms......Page 22
The Extra-Paradigmatic Types in Archaic Latin......Page 23
Data and Methodology......Page 31
PART I. FOUR PROBLEMS IN THE LATIN VERB SYSTEM......Page 36
Introduction to Part I......Page 38
2. Simple Future and Future Perfect in Archaic Latin......Page 40
Possible Contrasts between Simple Future and Future Perfect......Page 43
The Regular Future Forms in Three Plays......Page 54
Conclusions......Page 68
3. The Sequence of Tenses in Archaic Latin......Page 70
The Sequence Rules in More Detail......Page 76
Subordinate Clauses with Independent Subjunctives......Page 96
Some Statistics......Page 106
Conclusions......Page 108
4. Prohibitions with fēcerīs and faciās in Archaic Latin......Page 111
Prohibitions with nē (nēue), minimē, nēmō, neque (nec), nihil, and nūllus......Page 118
Prohibitions with Forms of cauēre......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 148
5. Infinitivals with Future Meaning in Archaic Latin......Page 152
Telicity......Page 156
The Subject of the Infinitive......Page 163
The Infinitive dare......Page 165
The Voice of the Infinitive......Page 167
Subject Accusatives......Page 168
Register Differences......Page 173
The Influence of the Governing Verb......Page 177
Diachronic Differences......Page 180
Conclusions......Page 181
PART II. THE EXTRA-PARADIGMATIC VERB FORMS: A SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS......Page 186
Introduction to Part II......Page 188
6. The Sigmatic Future in Archaic Latin......Page 190
The Sigmatic Forms in Subordinate Clauses......Page 193
The Sigmatic Forms in Main Clauses......Page 199
A Rationale for the Distribution of the Sigmatic Indicative Forms?......Page 207
Conclusions......Page 208
7. The Sigmatic Subjunctive in Archaic Latin......Page 210
Frequency and Productivity......Page 211
Register......Page 214
Combination with Other Tenses, Time Reference, and Other Features......Page 218
Distribution Patterns......Page 228
Conclusions......Page 232
Excursus: The Rhotacized Forms iŭuerint, moněrint, and sīrint......Page 234
8. The Sigmatic Infinitives......Page 243
Productivity and Register......Page 244
Time Reference and Function......Page 245
Conclusions......Page 257
9. The Type duim in Archaic Latin......Page 259
Frequency and Productivity......Page 261
Register......Page 265
Tense, Aspect, and Other Features......Page 267
Patterns of Distribution......Page 274
Conclusions......Page 279
An Addendum: The Indicative Forms in Archaic Latin......Page 280
10. The Type attigās in Archaic Latin......Page 283
Frequency and Productivity......Page 285
Register......Page 296
Temporal Reference and Special Features......Page 298
Distribution over Clause Types......Page 309
Conclusions......Page 314
A Further Addendum: Extra-Paradigmatic Indicatives?......Page 315
PART III. THE EXTRA-PARADIGMATIC VERB FORMS: A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS......Page 320
Introduction to Part III......Page 322
11. Some Problems of Reconstruction......Page 324
Aorists or Desideratives?......Page 325
The Origin of the -ss- in amāssint......Page 334
Ancient and Recent Sigmatic Forms......Page 340
Some Problems Concerning duim and dem......Page 346
Summary......Page 354
12. Extra-Paradigmatic Forms in Classical and Later Latin......Page 355
The Sigmatic Indicatives and Subjunctives......Page 357
Rhotacized Forms and Sigmatic Infinitives......Page 372
The ī-Subjunctives and Their Corresponding Indicatives......Page 373
The Extra-Paradigmatic ā-Subjunctives......Page 377
Conclusions......Page 381
PART IV. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS......Page 384
Summary......Page 386
References......Page 395
C......Page 410
L......Page 411
P......Page 412
T......Page 414
V......Page 415
Latin......Page 416
Gothic......Page 421
Indo-European and Other Reconstructed Forms......Page 422
Oscan......Page 423
Venetic......Page 424
B......Page 425
G......Page 426
N......Page 427
P......Page 428
S......Page 429
V......Page 431
W......Page 432
