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 &lt; est , -'s &lt; -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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Autor Principal: Pezzini, G
Outros autores: Adams, J
Formato: Thesis
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2011
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