Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies (Sozomena Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts)

Benjamin W. Fortson IV - Language and Rhythm in Plautus (2008)......Page 1
Sozomena - Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts - Vol. 3......Page 3
ISBN: 9783110205930......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 8
Abbreviations and Symbols......Page 12
Plautus......Page 14
Metrical “laws” and the prosodic organization of speech......Page 16
The transmission of the plays......Page 23
Issues of method......Page 27
Editions used; general guide and abbreviations......Page 31
Plautine scansion......Page 33
The iambo-trochaic meters of Sprechvers......Page 35
The alphabetic notation......Page 38
The ictus-accent question......Page 43
Introduction to Meyer\'s and Luchs\'s Laws......Page 47
Violations of Luchs\'s Law......Page 50
The avoidance of pater meus, etc. at line-end......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 64
Violations of Meyer\'s Law in the first measure of the senarius......Page 67
Violations of Meyer\'s Law in the second measure of the senarius......Page 81
Jacobsohn\'s Law and the breues in longo......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 106
Introduction......Page 111
Inversion of subordinating conjunction......Page 118
Magna cum laude constructions: prosody and diachrony......Page 124
Conjunctions......Page 130
Right-extraposed subjects......Page 132
NPs straddling line-break......Page 134
Prepositions......Page 138
Enjambed verbs......Page 140
Conclusion......Page 145
Introduction......Page 147
Previous studies......Page 153
Aphaeresis after nouns......Page 157
Aphaeresis after adjectives and participles......Page 164
Aphaeresis after pronouns and adverbs......Page 165
Brinkmann\'s thesis and aphaeresis after -is......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 187
Introduction......Page 189
Phonological studies of breuis breuians......Page 195
The prosodic and syntactic conditioning of breuis breuians......Page 200
Breuis breuians across word-groups......Page 204
Monosyllables followed by polysyllables......Page 212
Breuis breuians in polysyllables......Page 217
BB in full-content lexemes: the noun data......Page 230
Eru(s) meus and meus erus revisited......Page 245
Shortening before clitics......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 269
The syllable......Page 272
Phonological word and clitic group......Page 273
The prosodic status of verbs......Page 276
Syntactic movement and prosodic domain construction......Page 280
Conclusion......Page 281
Other references......Page 284
Index Locorum......Page 302