Studies in Classical Linguistics in Honor of Philip Baldi

by Page, Richard; Rubin, Aaron D.

• ISBN13: 9789004188662
• ISBN10: 9004188665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume includes fourteen original articles, written by a diverse group of distinguished scholars in honor of Philip Baldi (Penn State University). The contributions all focus on some aspect of classical linguistics, by which is meant Latin, Greek, Estruscan, and Indo-European. Some focus more on historical linguistic issues, while others deal with synchronic grammatical or semantic problems. The volume also offers a complete bibliography of the works of Philip Baldi, as well as a personal sketch.

Author Biography

Richard Page, Ph.D. (1994) University of Wisconsin Madison, is an Associate Professor at Penn State University. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the history and development of the Germanic languages. Aaron D. Rubin, Ph.D. (2004) Harvard University, is an Associate Professor at Penn State University. He specializes in the history and development of the Semitic languages and has published three previous books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

Tabula Gratulatoria	p. vii
Editors Preface	p. ix
A Personal Portrait	p. xi
The Professional History and Publications of Philip Baldi (through 2010)	p. xv
A Few Words for Springs in Aeschylus	p. 1
How to Move Towards Somebody in Plautus' Comedies: Some Remarks on the Adverb obuiam	p. 7
Baltic Palaeocomparativism and the Idea that Lithuanian is a Neo-Latin Language	p. 21
Blight and Bugs: The Semantics of Latin Plant Diseases and the Perils of Latin Translations of the OT book of Psalms	p. 31
On Latin (s)tritavus	p. 43
On Complex Syllable Onsets in Latin	p. 47
Having Something that You Don't Own: Apud Possessive Constructions in Latin and a Comparison with Locative Possessive Sentences in Irish	p. 57
Gender Assignment of Latin Loanwords in Early Germanic: A Case Study of Latin vinum	p. 75
The Use of quia and quoniam in Cicero, Seneca, and Tertullian	p. 81
Bum loquimur, fugerit inuida aetas: On Tense and Actionality of Latin verba dicendi	p. 97
Thoughts on the Origin of the Latin and Indo-European Nominal Declension	p. 115
Latin alias 't another time'	p. 123
Etruscan mlak and the Interpretation of the Inscription on the Santa Teresa kyathos	p. 141
Poetry in Motion: The Semantic Transformation of poetria in the Middle Ages	p. 149
Index of Authors Cited	p. 165
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