Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America. / "Select bibliography": p. x-xii.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1964.

This thesis investigates the origins and behaviour of the non-canonical morphological phenomenon of heteroclisis in the verb paradigms of Latin and the Romance languages. Heteroclisis is the coexistence, within a single paradigm, of forms which pattern according to different inflectional classes existing otherwise in the language: a heteroclite lexeme can thus be seen as 'mixed' or 'undecided' as to its inflectional identity. I begin by examining the development of the theoretical concept of heteroclisis and approaches to the idea of inflectional class in general, before situating heteroclisis in typological space in comparison with better-known instances of non-canonical morphology such as deponency and suppletion; heteroclisis exists at a different level of generalization from these, because its identification presupposes the existence of inflectional classes, themselves generalizations over the behaviour of individual lexemes. I also consider two recent theoretical treatments of the phenomenon and survey recent linguistic studies making use of the notion. I then look at the synchronic and diachronic behaviour of heteroclisis in Latin and Romance verbs: the great time depth of our attestations of these languages gives us the chance to witness the development of successive examples of heteroclisis, and their subsequent treatment within the morphological system, in the history of a single family. Focusing chiefly on data from Latin, Romanian and Romansh, I find that the principal (though not the only) source for new instances of heteroclisis in Latin/Romance lies in regular sound change, and find that speakers can treat these synchronically anomalous patterns as robust models of inflectional behaviour to be extended over the lexicon or brought into line with pre-existing types of paradigm-internal alternation. These findings concur with previous demonstrations that speakers make use of non-canonical phenomena as markers of the internal structure of inflectional paradigms.

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Orientador: Arnaldo Cortina / Co-orientador: João Batista Toledo Prado / Banca: Alceu Dias Lima / Banca: Cláudio Aquati / Banca: Mário Ferreira / Banca: Neiva Ferreira Pinto / Resumo: O estudo do latim está essencialmente voltado à aquisição de uma competência receptiva escrita. Por essa razão, o ensino dessa língua antiga deve ter como objetivo principal a formação de leitores. A eficaz compreensão de textos antigos depende de um processo de aprendizagem que passe por três níveis de competência: o nível linguístico, o nível textual e o nível intertextual. Da conceituação saussuriana de língua e fala à concepção de semiótica pluriplana de Hjelmslev, é possível ir das oposições linguísticas, que criam sentido na frase, aos mecanismos que permitem reconhecer o texto como objeto cultural. Como parte desse encaminhamento metodológico para o ensino de latim, que procura estreitar o distanciamento cultural existente entre o mundo antigo e o contemporâneo, evitando anacronismos na leitura e na interpretação de textos latinos, apresenta-se uma sistematização da matéria no seu estágio inicial em que se visa à compreensão das estruturas frasais latinas e, com elas, as oposições de caso / Abstract: The study of Latin is essentially focused on the receptive writing skills acquisition. For this reason, the teaching of this ancient language should have the readers' training as its main objective. The effective understanding of ancient texts depends on a learning process that is based on three competence levels: the language level, the textual level and the intertextual level. From Saussure's language and speech conceptions to Hjelmslev's pluri-planar semiotic concept, it is possible to go from linguistic oppositions, which create sentence meaning, to mechanisms that allow the recognition of the text as a cultural object. As part of this teaching methodology, which seeks to narrow the cultural gap between the ancient and the contemporary world, avoiding anachronistic interpretation of Latin texts, this study presents a systematization of the initial contents of the discipline which aims to provide tools for the understanding of simple sentence structures and case oppositions / Doutor

Inaugural Dissertation--Academia Albertina (Königsberg). / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-diss.--Münster. / Vita.

Programm--K. Studienanstalt Speier. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Part of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1931. / "Private ed., distributed by the University of Chicago libraries."

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Classical Languages and Literatures, June 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-210). Also available on the Internet.