Evidence of periphrastic gradation in Late Latin

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LVLT-EB.5.142508" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LVLT-EB.5.142508</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.LVLT-EB.5.142508" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.LVLT-EB.5.142508</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evidence of periphrastic gradation in Late Latin
Original language description
The widely accepted (and from the linguistic point of view quite logical) view that periphrastic gradation in Latin gradually replaced morphological gradation is subjected to closer scrutiny. Using the Library of Latin Texts (Brepols) database, statistics drawn from an extensive excerption of corpus material on the occurrence of periphrastic and morphological comparatives and superlatives show that the expected increase in the proportion of periphrastic forms is not detectable in Latin literary texts. Given the generally low frequencies of periphrastic comparatives and superlatives, it is indeed not possible to draw conclusions from these statistics with a high degree of certainty, and it cannot be claimed that the assumption of such an increase has been completely refuted in this way. However, it can be confidently asserted that it has no support in the extant material.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Varietate delectamur: Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin
ISBN
978-2-503-60679-8
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
475-487
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
Event location
Ghent
Event date
Sep 5, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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