Latin linguistics

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The term Latin linguistics (English "Latin linguistics", French "linguistique Latine") describes the linguistic research into the Latin language . In contrast to the neutral term “ linguistics ” , the word “linguistics” refers to linguistic analysis using modern structuralist methods and theories.

approaches

Mostly newer knowledge, methods and models are applied to the Latin language in order to solve Latin problems, which are still abundant despite the intensive research of the Latin language, better than with traditional instruments. The opposite case, namely that new general knowledge of linguistic theory can be obtained from the analysis of Latin phenomena, occurs less frequently, but is quite possible, even given the provisional status of some linguistic theory. It should always be adequately taken into account that Latin is a language that is no longer spoken, in which tests with native speakers are not possible, but only the evaluation of a corpus that has in places been incomplete. Linguistic analysis mainly takes place in the areas of syntax or sentence theory, semantics or the theory of meaning and pragmatics or text usage theory, less often in morphology or theory of forms and even more rarely in this corpus language in phonology or the teaching of phonemes or meaningful sounds. Typical topics in modern linguistics in the area of ​​Latin linguistics are problems of word order and pragmatics; typical traditional topics of vehement persistence are case syntax and tense, aspect and type of action.

In the 1960s and 1970s, formal generative approaches were also applied to the Latin language, but functional approaches predominate today, especially the functional grammar by Simon C. Dik (1941–1995), which the representatives of the so-called Amsterdam Latinist School, e.g. . B. Harm Pinkster , A. Machtelt Bolkestein († 2001), C. Kroon, R. Risselada. The "Latijnse Syntaxis en Semantiek" Harm Pinksters can be considered a documentation . This study book, translated into four languages, describes “Latin syntax and semantics” using modern linguistic methods and models.

research

Impetus for research in Latin linguistics comes from the biennial international colloquia on Latin linguistics (ICLL), which first took place in Amsterdam in 1981 and has had its own website since 2001. Another forum for Latin linguistics are the Journées de linguistique latine , which take place more or less regularly in the “Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis” in Brussels and are dedicated to specific questions such as “Ordre des mots, dislocation et thématisation” (9 Dec. . 2009). There is also a publication organ specializing in questions of Latin linguistics, namely the Papers on Grammar edited by Gualtiero Calboli . Since 2013 there has been its own specialist journal, namely the Journal of Latin Linguistics ( JOLL ), published by De Gruyter (also as an online version) , which continues the Papers on Grammar , appears twice a year and is currently edited by Gualtiero Calboli and Pierluigi Cuzzolin. In addition to the files of the International Colloquiums on Latin Linguistics , they will be the relevant publication organs for small to medium-sized research contributions on Latin linguistics (cf. e.g. Goria 2013). Finally, the Revue de Linguistique latine du center Alfred Ernout should be mentioned here; H. the publication organ of the Alfred Ernout Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris, where conferences on Latin linguistics are held regularly.

literature

  • Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7 .
  • Gualtiero Calboli (Ed.): Papers on Grammar. Ten volumes. Bologna a. a. 1980-2008.
  • Gualtiero Calboli, Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Eds.): Journal of Latin Linguistics. 1ff. Berlin / New York 2013 ff.
  • Eugenio Goria: Towards a taxonomy of Latin cleft sentences. In: JOLL. 1, 2013, pp. 147-172.
  • Roland Hoffmann : Latin Linguistics - Morphosyntax and Syntax from a Single Language and Typological Perspective. Buske Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-87548-765-7 .
  • Roland Hoffmann: Perspectives on Latin Linguistics. Thoughts on the Eighth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Eichstätt 1995. In: Scrinium. Vol. 42-43, 1996-97, pp. 3-13.
  • Bianca Liebermann: Latin prepositions - localization and valence. Buske Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-87548-740-4 .
  • Malte Liesner: Workbook for Latin Historical Phonology. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-89500-859-7 .
  • Dirk Panhuis: Latin grammar. Translated by Roland Hoffmann. De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040240-7 .
  • Harm Pinkster : Introduction. In: Ders .: Latin linguistics and linguistic theory. Benjamin Press, Amsterdam 1983, ISBN 90-272-3011-0 , pp. Ix-xviii.
  • Harm Pinkster: Latin syntax and semantics (= UTB. 1462). Franckhe Verlag, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-7720-1743-6 (= UTB. 1462).
  • Harm Pinkster: Latin Linguistics in Machtelt 's way. In: Papers on Grammar. IX.1, Rome 2005, pp. 1-11.
  • Guy Serbat: Linguistique latine et linguistique générale (= Cahiers de l'institut de linguistique de Louvain. 39). Peeters Books, Louvain-la-Neuve 1988, ISBN 90-6831-103-4 .
  • Christian Touratier: Latin Grammar - Linguistic Introduction to the Latin Language. Transl. And edit. by Bianca Liebermann. WBG, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-24885-8 .
  • Klaus Weddingen: Sermo. Latin grammar. Buske Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-647-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bußmann 2002: 409
  2. ↑ s. and keyword 'ICLL XI' ff. etc. as well as: Linguistique Latine ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olgaspevak.nl
  3. ↑ Bd.IX Rome 2005; Volume X: Rome 2008