The Category of Comparison in Latin / / Lucie Pultrová.

• Superior document: The Language of Classical Literature ; 36
• VerfasserIn: Pultrová, Lucie,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Language of Classical Literature ; 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)

Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? Based on extensive data collection, this book aims to provide today’s readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer to this question.

This book focuses on one of the basic – yet still rather neglected in Latin linguistics– grammatical categories: comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? This question may seem trivial to those working with modern languages but is not at all trivial in the case of a dead language such as Latin that has no native speakers and a limited corpus of written texts. Based on extensive data collection, the book aims to provide today’s readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Tables -- ‎Chapter 1. Theoretical Background and Methodology -- ‎1.1. Aims and Scope -- ‎1.2. The Category of Comparison in Modern Latin Grammars -- ‎1.3. The Category of Comparison according to Late Latin Grammarians -- ‎1.3.1. Scope of the Category of Comparison and Basic Concepts -- ‎1.3.2. Morphological and Syntactic Rules of Comparison -- ‎1.4. The Category of Comparison from a General Linguistic Perspective -- ‎1.4.1. Basic Concepts (Comparison-Measure-Gradability-Scalarity) -- ‎1.4.2. Comparison-a Grammatical or Derivational Category? -- ‎1.4.3. Scale Types -- ‎1.4.4. Methods of Determining Scalarity -- ‎1.4.5. Classification of Adjectives Used in this Work -- ‎1.5. Language Material Used For Analysis -- ‎1.5.1. Method of Corpus Creation -- ‎1.5.2. Limitations of the Corpus and the Data Obtained From It -- ‎Chapter 2. The Forms of Latin Comparison -- ‎2.1. The Origin of the Latin Comparative and Superlative Suffixes -- ‎2.2. Irregular Comparison -- ‎2.2.1. bonus-melior-optimus -- ‎2.2.2. malus-peior-pessimus -- ‎2.2.3. magnus-maior-maximus -- ‎2.2.4. parvus-minor-minimus -- ‎2.2.5. multus-plūrēs-plūrimī -- ‎2.3. Periphrastic Comparison -- ‎2.3.1. Periphrastic Comparison in Latin Grammars -- ‎2.3.2. Periphrastic Comparison with magis and maximē in the Corpus -- ‎2.3.2.1. Magis -- ‎2.3.2.2. Maximē -- ‎2.3.2.3. Summary -- ‎2.3.2.4. Diachronic Observations -- ‎2.3.3. Plūs -- ‎2.4. Adjectives with Only One Degree (Comparative or Superlative) Attested -- ‎2.4.1. Adjectives and Adverbs with Only Comparatives Attested -- ‎2.4.2. Adjectives and Adverbs with Only Superlatives Attested -- ‎Chapter 3. Gradable and Non-gradable Latin Adjectives -- ‎3.1. Introduction -- ‎3.2. Qualitative Abstract Nouns as an Indicator of Gradability -- ‎3.2.1. Suffix -itia -- ‎3.2.2. Suffix -tūdō -- ‎3.2.3. Suffix -ia.

‎3.2.3.1. -ntia -- ‎3.2.3.2. -ia -- ‎3.2.4. Suffix -tās -- ‎3.2.5. Summary -- ‎3.3. Adjectives Formed By Composition -- ‎3.3.1. Introduction -- ‎3.3.2. Typological Classification of Adjectival Compounds -- ‎3.3.3. VP: Object + Verb -- ‎3.3.4. VP: Adverbial Modifier + Verb -- ‎3.3.5. NP and PP -- ‎3.3.5.1. Exogenous Adjectival Compounds -- ‎3.3.5.2. Endogenous Adjectival Compounds -- ‎3.3.6. AP: Adverbial Modifier + Adjective -- ‎3.3.6.1. Degree -- ‎3.3.6.2. Place/Direction -- ‎3.3.6.3. Summary: Compounds of the Type Adverbial Modifier + Adjective -- ‎3.3.7. Conclusions -- ‎3.4. Adjectives Formed By Derivation -- ‎3.4.1. Introduction -- ‎3.4.2. Deverbal Adjectives -- ‎3.4.2.1. Participles -- ‎3.4.2.2. -idus -- ‎3.4.2.3. -r, gen. -ris -- ‎3.4.2.4. -uus and -vus -- ‎3.4.2.5. -bilis -- ‎3.4.2.6. -ilis -- ‎3.4.2.7. -tilis/-silis -- ‎3.4.2.8. -āneus -- ‎3.4.2.9. -tīcius/-sīcius -- ‎3.4.2.10. -īvus -- ‎3.4.2.11. -āx -- ‎3.4.2.12. -ulus -- ‎3.4.2.13. -ius -- ‎3.4.2.14. -(i)s -- ‎3.4.2.15. -us -- ‎3.4.2.16. -nus -- ‎3.4.2.17. -mus -- ‎3.4.2.18. -rus -- ‎3.4.2.19. -es, gen. -etis -- ‎3.4.2.20. -īcus -- ‎3.4.2.21. -ūcus -- ‎3.4.2.22. -ticus -- ‎3.4.2.23. -culus -- ‎3.4.2.24. -cer, -cris, -cre -- ‎3.4.2.25. -ulcus -- ‎3.4.2.26. -olus -- ‎3.4.2.27. -tillus -- ‎3.4.2.28. Summary-Deverbal Adjectives -- ‎3.4.3. Desubstantival Adjectives -- ‎3.4.3.1. Introduction -- ‎3.4.3.2. Classes of Desubstantival Adjectives (Defined By Suffix) -- ‎3.4.3.3. Summary-Desubstantival Adjectives -- ‎3.4.4. Adjectives with an Adjectival Base -- ‎3.4.4.1. Primary ("Basic") Adjectives -- ‎3.4.4.2. -idus -- ‎3.4.4.3. Diminutives (Suffixes Containing -lo-) -- ‎3.4.4.4. -aster -- ‎3.4.4.5. -ōx -- ‎3.4.4.6. -icus -- ‎3.4.4.7. -icius/-īcius -- ‎3.4.4.8. -ācus -- ‎3.4.4.9. -cus -- ‎3.4.4.10. -uscus/-iscus -- ‎3.4.4.11. -cris -- ‎3.4.4.12. -āneus -- ‎3.4.4.13. -ēnus -- ‎3.4.4.14. -ius.

‎3.4.4.15. -ilis -- ‎3.4.4.16. -i/ulentus -- ‎3.4.4.17. -bus -- ‎3.4.4.18. -ās, gen. -ātis -- ‎3.4.4.19. -ōris -- ‎3.4.4.20. -uleius -- ‎3.4.4.21. -urnus -- ‎3.4.4.22. -ōtus -- ‎3.4.4.23. Summary-Adjectives with an Adjectival Base -- ‎3.4.5. Adjectives Derived From Adverbs -- ‎3.4.5.1. The type in-inter-interior-intimus -- ‎3.4.5.2. -nus -- ‎3.4.5.3. -neus -- ‎3.4.5.4. -rnus -- ‎3.4.5.5. -tinus/-tīnus -- ‎3.4.5.6. -inus -- ‎3.4.5.7. -inquus -- ‎3.4.5.8. -īcus -- ‎3.4.5.9. -cus -- ‎3.4.5.10. -vus -- ‎3.4.5.11. -bus -- ‎3.4.5.12. -per- -- ‎3.4.5.13. -ārius -- ‎3.4.5.14. -īnus -- ‎3.4.5.15. nēquam -- ‎3.4.5.16. Summary-Adjectives Derived From Adverbs -- ‎3.4.6. Adverbs not Derived From Adjectives -- ‎3.4.7. Adjectival and Adverbial Pronouns and Numerals -- ‎3.4.8. Loan Adjectives from Greek -- ‎Chapter 4. Conclusions -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Adjectives and Adjectival Affixes.