商品簡介
Dupraz (Latin linguistics, U. of Rouen) explains that there are five languages descended from Common Italic, the best known being Latin, part of the Common Latino-Faliscan subgroup. The other three are in the Common Sabellian subgroup: Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene. It is these languages for which he describes the demonstratives. The languages are fragmentarily attested, preserved only in written records, primarily inscriptions. Umbrian is best documented, in seven bronze tables, the Iguvine Tables, discovered intact in 1444. South Picene is represented by 23 short inscriptions, in which only a few poetic epitaphs display demonstratives in use. There are a few hundred examples of Oscan, but almost all are short inscriptions, so the demonstratives are even less documented than those of South Picene. The demonstratives are *esto-/*esmo-, *eko-/*ekso-, *ollo, *i-/*eyo-/*eyso-, and some obscure forms. Final chapters provide synchronic and diachronic comparisons of Sabellian and Latin demonstratives. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Emmanuel Dupraz, docteur (2003), Universite Paris IV, habilitation (2010), EPHE, is maitre de conferences of Latin Linguistics at the Universite de Rouen. He has published on Sabellian languages and epigraphy, including Les Vestins a l’epoque tardo-republicaine (PURH, 2010).