History of Latin language

Lectures are devised as a two year cycle and offer an overview of the historical development of Latin, covering the following topics:

1) The history of the language:
– Latin in relation to other Indo-European languages
– The periodization of Latin
– Latin script
– Latin in relation to the Romance languages
2) Phonology:
– The Proto-Indo-European phoneme inventory
– Outline of the historical phonetics of Latin
– Vowel length
– The placement of the stress and related changes
– The historical phonetics of the consonant system (individual consonants, consonant clusters)
3) Morphology:
– The morphological inventory of the Indo-European languages
– Nominal morphology
– Pronominal morphology
– Verbal morphology
4) Syntax: selected chapters intended to provide an outli-ne of the syntactic peculiarities of Latin, tackled within various theoretical frameworks, e.g.
– The syntax of the Latin noun
– The syntax of Latin impersonal verbal forms

Temeljna študijska literatura:
M. Babič, Zgodovinsko glasoslovje in oblikoslovje latinskega jezika; Ljubljana 2004, str. 5-115 COBISS.SI-ID – 215164416
Bennet, C. E. Syntax of Early Latin. Hildesheim, 1966. COBISS.SI-ID – 19549538
Claskson, J., Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Cambridge 2015. COBISS.SI-ID – 68753250
Herman, J., in R. Wright. Vulgar Latin. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
J. B. Hofmann – A. Szantyr, Lateinische Syntax und Stilistik; München 1965, str. str. 529-679 COBISS.SI-ID – 44929024
E. C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax, Cambridge (Mass.), 1959, str. 166-213. COBISS.SI-ID – 24329314
J. Clackson, G. Horrocks: The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Malden-Oxford-Victoria 2007. COBISS.SI-ID – 61193826

Dodatna literatura:
P. Baldi, The Foundations of Latin, Berlin in New York 1999, str. 1-46
Bauer, B. Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: the Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French. Berlin in New York, 2000.
A. Ernout - F. Thomas, Syntaxe latine, Pariz 1972, str. 277-420
H. Pinkster, Latin Syntax and Semantics, London 1990 (elektronska izdaja: http://cybergreek.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philo/navigate.pl?lss.0)
F. Sommer - R. Pfister: Handbuch der lateinischen Laut-und Formenlehre, Heidelberg 1977, str. 39-126
Janson, Tore: A Natural History of Latin. Oxford 2004.