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Between aspect and deixis: Vado in Classical Latin and the evolution of motion verbs by Andrea Nuti

“…However, an analysis of vado in Classical Latin points rather to the fact that this verb displays distinctive features such as [ingressive] or [durative] and has a place of its own as a functional by-form of eo. …”
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Verborum ordo – ordo verborum: the placement of the dependent genitive in Classical Latin by McLachlan, K

“…<p>In this thesis I examine the placement of the dependent genitive relative to its head noun in Classical Latin prose. The corpus is drawn from the works of four first-century B.C. authors: Caesar, Cicero, Sallust and Varro. …”

Beard's SPQR. A History of Ancient Rome as Background Reading in Classical Latin Courses. A Teaching Proposal by Tamara Lobato Beneyto

“…Addressing and integrating this type of knowledge into Classical Latin courses is, therefore, expected to aid student comprehension of both original and adapted classical texts.…”
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Comprehending Comprehensible Input (CI): Some Observations by Jerome Moran

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The History of the Normative Opposition of “Language versus Dialect”: From Its Graeco-Latin Origin to Central Europe’s Ethnolinguistic Nation-States by Tomasz Kamusella

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De musica latine scribenda: How to approach a Latin text as a composer without summoning a demon in the process (2022) by Juan Carlos Aliaga del Bosque

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A New Frontier: AI and Ancient Language Pedagogy by Edward A. S. Ross

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Spoken Latin in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance by Jerome Moran

“…And the kind of Latin that is spoken in the classroom, an attempt to render a spoken form of Classical Latin, however ‘correct’ it may be grammatically and phonologically (and the grammar and phonology even of Classical Latin changed over time), is most unlikely to have been spoken routinely in the same kind of informal situations by an educated (one who is adept in Classical Latin) native speaker of Latin. …”
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How fast did Cicero speak? by Daniel Stelzer

“…Using new methods of extrapolation and resampling, I was able to estimate the information conveyed per syllable in a written Classical Latin corpus. I was then able to use this cross-linguistic consistency to estimate the natural speech rate of Classical Latin, a language that has not been natively spoken for thousands of years. …”
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A comparative perspective on the evolution of Romance clausal structure by Wolfe, S

“…The article presents a comparative analysis of the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure from Classical Latin through to the late medieval period, with particular reference to the Verb Second (V2) property. …”

Latinus Scientificus: The History and Culture of Scientific Latin by Barry Wood

“…A language with few contemporary speakers but widespread use is Latinus Scientificus (Scientific Latin)—a modernized version of the classical Latin of Caesar, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, and Virgil two thousand years ago. …”
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“Forsi il mio dir torreti a maraviglia”: modalità citazionali negli "Amorum libri" by Tiziano Zanato

“…Not only does he cite from classical Latin or Italian texts, but he also takes his quotations from the Occitanic or the ancient French traditions. …”
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Quelques remarques pour une reconsidération des verbes latins en -isso/-izo/-idio by Liana Tronci

“…Firstly, the verbs are unevenly distributed within the texts: they occur in Plautus’ comedies, Christian texts and technical treatises, but they never occur in Classical Latin. Secondly, Latin verbs do not appear to be productive, compared with the corresponding verbs in Greek and Romance languages.…”
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Personal versus impersonal passive in Latin infinitival clauses: Some diachronic considerations by Sean Gleason

“…This paper deals with the historical origins of the Classical Latin alternation between the personal passive NcI and the impersonal passive + AcI constructions. …”
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La préposition latine prae, un cas de grammaticalisation ? by Hamida Trabelsi

“…Based on a corpus study, I then consider the semantic and syntactic changes of the adverb, preposition and prefix prae, trying to follow their destiny in the Classical and Post-classical Latin, seeking finally to establish a parallelism with modern French.…”
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PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING LATIN TO FUTURE PHILOLOGISTS by Ruslan M. Kliuchnyk, Larysa V. Ratomska

“…It has been mentioned that not so many texts survive from Classical Antiquity and there is only a limited number of post-classical Latin-language texts. This language, like any other one, has changed a lot, so we focus on learning Classical Latin. …”
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Jan Novák: Musica poetica Latina : od nesmrtelnosti jazyka k nesmrtelnosti hudby? by Martin Flašar

“…It is a practical guide for setting Latin texts in music, including the theory of metrical poetry, classical Latin pronunciation, etc. In my paper I have tried to compare the Novák's attempt with two disproportionately more famous writings on the topic: Horatio's De Arte Poetica and Musica Poetica by Joachim Burmeister.…”
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József Herman, Vulgar Latin, translated by Roger Wright, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, XIV+ 130 p. by Witold Manczak

“…Selon l'auteur (p. 1), "the kind of language that must be taken to be the common origin for related words and similar phonetic and grammatical features in the Romance languages is often noticeably different from Classical Latin, as reflected in the works of Cicero or Virgil". …”
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Morphosyntactic realignment and markedness change in Late Latin: Evidence from charter texts by Timo Korkiakangas

“…This paper discusses how the Latin accusative became the unmarked default case and how this markedness turn is related to the morphosyntactic realignment of the grammatical relations in Late Latin. In Classical Latin, the nominative was the unmarked default case, as is typical of nominative/accusative aligned languages. …”
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