LING 425 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Apollonius Dyscolus, 1 Bc, Nominative Case
30 Jan 2020
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Rely heavily on the greek linguists: roman grammarians interested in the application of greek to latin. Greek knowledge was preserved and respected by the romans. Varo and quintilian there"s not much to report but some grammarians did another small pedagogical law to grammar. Quintilian (1st ad: teacher of public speaking. Interest in public speaking was the correctness of spoken language: tried to propose the instrumental case, to take some of these meanings [genitive, nominative, neutral]and subsume them into a new case (wanted to call instrumental) but it didn"t. Work: about maintaining the scholarship of the ancient greeks and the philosophers. Interiectio: to express emotional contant & states of mind: syntax, how transitive/intransitive verbs work, he called a nominative case (we call subject) and explained how they work, grammar served as the main authority on latin. The middle ages (5th 15th century ad : first 6 centuries; famously known as the dark ages. Linguistic processes --- to things that are static.
