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Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00111917" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00111917 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110678222" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110678222</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110678222" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110678222</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets

  • Original language description

    The present chapter is devoted to the analysis of syntactic peculiarities found in the corpus of the Latin tabellae defixionum, concerning the use of the names of cursed persons being in nominative or accusative. Interpreting this kind of epigraphic material, strongly related to magical practice, we find not only Vulgar Latin spelling and morphosyntactic features, but also deviations in syntactic structures of the texts, which are combined and interfere with one another. These peculiarities are often caused by specific rules based on the magical character of the texts, and their use during the rituals in cursing practices. The goal is to provide some possible explanations of the deviations of Latin syntax and the strong tendency to use the proper names of cursed persons in nominative, seemingly regardless to the syntactic requirements of the predicate. In the first part basic description, taxonomy and cursing “rules” are provided; in the second part syntax of the curse texts is discussed – the occurrence of nominative and accusative in name lists as well as irregularities caused by Vulgar Latin development. Finally the tendency to isolate proper names, sometimes also in the layout of the tablets caused by “magical” requirements, are discussed.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60202 - Specific languages

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Lemmata Linguistica Latina, vol. II: Clause and Discourse.

  • ISBN

    9783110678178

  • Number of pages of the result

    19

  • Pages from-to

    155-173

  • Number of pages of the book

    484

  • Publisher name

    De Gruyter

  • Place of publication

    Berlin

  • UT code for WoS chapter