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A linguistic commentary on Livius Andronicus

As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.

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  • "This dissertation examines problems of Latin historical and comparative grammar raised by the fragments of Livius Andronicus. The topics addressed may be categorized as follows, although there is, of course, considerable overlap: (1) questions of phonology: the $\sp*i\sp{e}/o$-stem vocative singular filie (vs. classical Latin fili/), praeda and $pre(he)nd\bar{o}$, ops, pullus 'dark'; (2) questions of verbal morphology: the third plural present in -nunt (nequinont, inserinuntur), gavisi/ (gaudeo), mandi/ (mando 'chew'), praestolo(r); (3) questions of nominal morphology: Morta, with a discussion of mortuus, topper and the formation of the adverbs in -per, Moneta and the development of the nouns in -etum, homon- vs. homin-, hemon-, dextrabus, nefrens; (4) a question of syntax: lacteam inmulgens opem."
  • "Virtually all recent major work on Livius Andronicus has focused on assessing his artistic merits and his skills as a translator of Homer. But, as the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax. In this book, Ivy Livingston frames an examination of Livius' Latin in the form of a commentary. Although Livius provides the starting-point of each comment, his language is sufficiently similar to his nearest successors - such as Naevius or Ennius - that many of the discussions do not also end with Livius, but explore wider-ranging problems of Latin and of Indo-European linguistics."
  • "As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax."@en

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