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Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin

Theoretical and Applied Perspectives in Comparative Grammar

Edited By: Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino, Renato Oniga

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This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.

This volume offers a coherent collection of 26 papers presented at an international conference held in November 2010, exploring the latest achievements of formal and…

This volume offers a coherent collection of 26 papers presented at an international conference held in November 2010, exploring the latest achievements of formal and comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. The three sections (syntax and morphology, semantics and pragmatics, history and theory of teaching) compare Latin with different ancient and modern languages, aiming to represent grammar rules as the product of mental processes. The book is addressed to linguists, teachers and students, who are looking for new perspectives to update their approach to classical Latin.

Renato Oniga is Professor of Latin and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Udine, Italy. He has published numerous articles, monographs and editions of classical authors (Plautus, Sallust and Tacitus), as well as a book on nominal compounding and a generative introduction to Latin.

Rossella Iovino is a PhD Student of Linguistics at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy. Her current research is devoted to the syntax of Latin nominal expressions.

Giuliana Giusti is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy. Her research is focused on the synchronic and diachronic syntax of nominal expressions in the Romance, Germanic and Balkan languages. She is also devoted to the dissemination of the advances in theoretical linguistics to language teaching.