Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World

Herausgeber: Pezzini, Giuseppe; Taylor, Barnaby

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108480666
• ISBN-10: 1108480667
• Artikelnr.: 54545376

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: first thoughts on language and nature Giuseppe Pezzini and
Barnaby Taylor; 1. Posidonius' linguistic naturalism and its philosophical
pedigree Alexander Verlinsky; 2. Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and
usage Anna Chahoud; 3. Nigidius Figulus' naturalism: between grammar and
philosophy Alessandro Garcea; 4. Naturalism in morphology: Varro on
derivation and inflection Wolfgang D. C. De Melo; 5. What's Hecuba to him?
Varro on the natural kinship of things and of words David Blank; 6.
Linguistic naturalism in Cicero's Academica Tobias Reinhardt; 7. Linguistic
naturalism and natural style: from Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of
Halicarnassus Casper C. de Jonge; 8. Natural law and natural language in
the first century BCE James Zetzel.