Book Chapter

Archaic and Old Latin

Penney, John

2011

Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Sources Orthography and Phonology Selected Morphological Features Lexicon Some Syntactic Patterns Archaic Latin Samples of Inscriptions Old Latin: On the Threshold of the Classical Language Further Reading

• Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subject: archaic and Old Latin ‐ earliest remains of Latin, seventh century BCE / best evidence for Archaic Latin ‐ coming from inscriptions / inscriptions, for Old Latin ‐ even after appearance of first literary texts / language of six pre‐Classical centuries ‐ as “Archaic Latin” or “Early Latin” or “Old Latin” / letter C, continuing Greek letter gamma ‐ original value [g] / Old Latin, on threshold of the Classical Language ‐ inscription, 241 BCE / orthography and phonology ‐ Latin of earliest inscriptions, orthographic conventions, adopted / phonological changes ‐ importance, attached to questions of accent / spelling conventions, orthographic features of Archaic Latin ‐ so‐called C/K/Q‐convention / syntactic patterns, and relative clauses ‐ scant traces of early construction
• ISBN: 9781405186056, 1405186054