The < e >/< i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data
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- Alessandro Papini (UGent)
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- This paper analyses the cases of < e > for /ĭ/ which occur in a corpus of 4,080 Latin inscriptions from Rome. All the inscriptions considered were divided into four periods (“mid-Republic”, “late Republic”, “early Empire” and “late Empire”), and in three sociolinguistically different groups (“formal”, “informal” and “diaphasically low” texts). Chapter 2 offers a qualitative study of all the e-spellings (for /ĭ/) in the corpus, in order to ascertain whether they might actually testify to the merger of /ē/ and /ĭ/. Chapter 3 examines the distribution of these e-spellings in the chronological and sociolinguistic groups defined above. The obtained results support a new interpretation for the mid-Republican instances of <e> for /ĭ/ (ca. 250-120 BC). Moreover, they also suggest that, from this period onwards, the merger of /ē/ and /ĭ/ took the form of a “change from below”.
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- Latin epigraphy, historical sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, <e>/<i> spelling variation
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- Papini, Alessandro. “The < e >/< i > Spelling Variation in Latin Inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : A Preliminary (Historical) Sociolinguistic Analysis Based on the Inscriptional Data.” REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE, vol. 100, no. 1, 2022, pp. 231–74.
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- Papini, A. (2022). The < e >/< i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data. REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE, 100(1), 231–274.
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- Papini, Alessandro. 2022. “The < e >/< i > Spelling Variation in Latin Inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : A Preliminary (Historical) Sociolinguistic Analysis Based on the Inscriptional Data.” REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE 100 (1): 231–74.
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- Papini, Alessandro. 2022. “The < e >/< i > Spelling Variation in Latin Inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : A Preliminary (Historical) Sociolinguistic Analysis Based on the Inscriptional Data.” REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE 100 (1): 231–274.
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- 1.Papini A. The < e >/< i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data. REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE. 2022;100(1):231–74.
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- [1]A. Papini, “The < e >/< i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data,” REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 231–274, 2022.
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abstract = {{This paper analyses the cases of < e > for /ĭ/ which occur in a corpus of 4,080 Latin inscriptions from Rome. All the inscriptions considered were divided into four periods (“mid-Republic”, “late Republic”, “early Empire” and “late Empire”), and in three sociolinguistically different groups (“formal”, “informal” and “diaphasically low” texts). Chapter 2 offers a qualitative study of all the e-spellings (for /ĭ/) in the corpus, in order to ascertain whether they might actually testify to the merger of /ē/ and /ĭ/. Chapter 3 examines the distribution of these e-spellings in the chronological and sociolinguistic groups defined above. The obtained results support a new interpretation for the mid-Republican instances of <e> for /ĭ/ (ca. 250-120 BC). Moreover, they also suggest that, from this period onwards, the merger of /ē/ and /ĭ/ took the form of a “change from below”.}},
author = {{Papini, Alessandro}},
issn = {{0035-0818}},
journal = {{REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE}},
keywords = {{Latin epigraphy,historical sociolinguistics,corpus linguistics,<e>/<i> spelling variation}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{231--274}},
title = {{The < e >/< i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300) : a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data}},
volume = {{100}},
year = {{2022}},
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