Terence and the verb ‘to be’ in Latin: contractions, sigmatic ecthlipsis, and some clitic characteristics of esse
<p>The main topic of the thesis is a discussion of the contraction of <em>esse</em> (-st < est , -'s < -es), a widespread phenomenon in Latin comedy, generally known as ‘prodelision’.</p><p>The thesis collects evidence for contracted forms from a larg...
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2011
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