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- Title
THOUGHTS ON PLAUTINE STYLE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ARCHAISM AND COLLOQUIALISM.
- Authors
CIRILO DE MELO, WOLFGANG DAVID
- Abstract
This article aims to examine Plautine style systematically, based on distributional criteria and statistics. It looks at the various means that Plautus can utilize in order to characterize a passage as archaic or colloquial. When Plautus wants to sound old-fashioned, he relies on morphology, while he has more varied ways of marking a passage as colloquial. There is a reason for this asymmetry: speakers of any language have access to colloquial registers on a day-to-day basis and can draw on phonology, morphology, and syntax, but archaic registers are acquired from written sources, and here it is morphology that stands out to readers.
- Subjects
COLLOQUIAL language; ARCHAISMS (Linguistics); TRANSLATIONS; LANGUAGE &; languages; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 2, p43
- ISSN
0302-7384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14746/sppgl.2023.XXXIII.2.3