TY - BOOK ID - 636545 TI - Sabellian demonstratives : forms and functions PY - 2012 VL - 6 SN - 9789004215405 9789004216990 9004216995 9004215409 1283366002 9781283366007 9786613366009 6613366005 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Indo-European languages KW - Grammar KW - Umbria KW - Sabellian languages KW - Langues sabelliques KW - Demonstratives KW - Démonstratifs KW - Sabellian language KW - Démonstratifs KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin. KW - Sabellic languages KW - Extinct languages KW - Italic languages and dialects KW - Demonstratives. KW - Sabellian language - Demonstratives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:636545 AB - Past research on the Sabellian languages has been devoted mainly to the phonetic and morphological features of these languages as elements for the reconstruction of the prehistoric stages of Latin. The present book aims at analysing the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of a subset of grammatical terms, the demonstratives. It contains a thorough description of their synchronic behaviour, which permits both a comparison to the Latin data with new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of the Italic origins of these terms based on typological principles. Neither the grammar of Sabellian nor the pragmatic scope of the Sabellian inscriptions should be considered a priori identical to their Latin comparanda. ER -